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Photograph of Rudolf Kunze Barn
Photograph by Jon Roanhaus, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Rudolf Kunze Barn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“The Rudolf Kunze Barn, in Twin Falls County, Idaho near Buhl, Idaho, was built in 1915. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, then removed in 1989 in a procedural error, then relisted in 1994.”

Wikipedia article Rudolf Kunze Barn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Twin Falls County · listed in 1994 · category: Building.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Kunze, Rudolf, Barn - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. NE of Buhl, Buhl, 83316
  • When was it listed? April 1994
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Buhl Dairy Barns TR
  • Census division. Buhl
  • National Register reference number. 83000292 - 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

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Rudolf Kunze Barn in 2016, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
12 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.4 acresTwin Falls DistrictRURAL ASSIST 3

Every fire recorded in Twin Falls County

Storms near this property

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buhl, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2019: 2 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 tornado, 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
September 2019Thunderstorm WindBuhl-A trained spotter reported large trees branches down near Buhl.
May 1998Tornado (F0)Buhl-A thunderstorm produced a weak tornado near Buhl. Numerous spotters reported a funnel cloud which briefly touched down and was photographed by a local newspaper. The tornado was short lived and produced no known damage over open and unpopulated terrain.
May 2005HailBuhl-no account filed
May 1998HailBuhl-no account filed
May 1996Heavy RainBuhl-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Twin Falls 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

6 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
Henry Schick Barn0.4 miles1983
Art and Frieda Maxwell Barn0.4 miles1983
Dau-Webbenhorst Barn1.5 miles1983
Ramona Theater2.6 miles1976
US Post Office-Buhl Main2.6 miles1989
Buhl IOOF Building2.6 miles1984

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83000292 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Twin Falls CountyAll 40 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.
  • 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.