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Snyder Guard Station Historical District

Built in 1908. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“The Snyder Guard Station by the Moyie River in Kaniksu National Forest, in the vicinity of Eastport, Idaho, dates from 1908. A historic district encompassing the station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Snyder Guard Station Historical District in 1983.”

Wikipedia article Snyder Guard Station Historical District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Boundary County · listed in 1983 · category: District · built in 1908.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 9 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. S of Eastport on Forest Service Rd. 211, Eastport, 83805
  • When was it listed? August 1983
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Moyie Springs
  • When was it built? 1908
  • National Register reference number. 83000283 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

78 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Snyder Guard Station Historical District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 43 acres in total. 39 started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Natural39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Smoking12
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism1
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestCAR
5 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsICICLE
3 September 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestPLACER CREEK
3 September 1998Naturalunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestDEER RIDGE
28 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestMEADOW CREEK
2 September 2006Naturalunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestKREIST CREEK
2 September 1998Smokingunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestRUTLEDGE
15 September 2018Naturalunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestSNYDER CREEK

Every fire recorded in Boundary County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Snyder Guard Station Historical District: 6 prospects, 4 unknowns, 3 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Silver, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Buckskin GroupLead, Silver, GoldProspectVein
Damon Group ProspectGold, Silver, LeadProspectGalena
Downey ProspectSilver, Lead, Copper, ZincProspect
Klondike ProspectLead, Silver, Zinc, Gold, NickelProspectVein
Queen MineCopper, Gold, Lead, Zinc, SilverPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite
Regal MineGold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, CopperPast Producer1937
Silver Spoon ProspectLead, Copper, Gold, SilverProspectVein
Tilley MineLead, Copper, Gold, Nickel, Silver, ZincProspect1952
Tommy Moran ProspectGold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, CopperOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Silver, Sphalerite
Tungsten Hill MineTungsten, Lead, Copper, Silver, GoldPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Scheelite

Every working recorded in Boundary County

Storms near this property

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eastport, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2013: 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2013Thunderstorm WindEastport-A large tree was blown over onto Highway 95 at milepost 533.
May 2008FloodEastport-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boundary County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

1 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Spokane & International Railroad Construction Camp5.6 miles1994

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83000283 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Boundary CountyAll 8 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.