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T. P. Bowlby Barn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“Bowlby Barn, northeast of Buhl, Idaho, was built in 1912 by Henry Schick, a German-Russian immigrant to the United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.”

Wikipedia article T. P. Bowlby Barn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Twin Falls County · listed in 1983 · 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. Bowlby, T. P., Barn - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. NE of Buhl, Buhl, 83316
  • When was it listed? September 1983
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Buhl Dairy Barns TR
  • Census division. Buhl
  • National Register reference number. 83000293 - 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

11 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of T. P. Bowlby Barn between 1997 and 2020, burning about 297 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning2
Natural2
Smoking1

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
15 September 2009Equipment and vehicle use3.3 acresTwin Falls DistrictNIAGARA SPRINGS
19 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTwin Falls DistrictNIAGARASP
7 July 1997Debris and open burning24 acresTwin Falls DistrictFISHNGAME1
21 July 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTwin Falls DistrictNIAGARA
18 July 2011Smoking1.0 acresIdaho Falls DistrictCLEAR LAKES
12 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.4 acresTwin Falls DistrictRURAL ASSIST 3
29 June 2010Natural8.0 acresTwin Falls DistrictCLEAR LAKE
26 June 2006Debris and open burning4.6 acresIdaho Falls DistrictGUN CLUB

Every fire recorded in Twin Falls County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of T. P. Bowlby Barn: 8 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Chromium, Iron, Stone. 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
Snake River PlacersGold, Chromium, IronPast Producer1862
State Pit Tf 79StoneProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working 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
Cedar Draw School1.9 miles1991
Art and Frieda Maxwell Barn2.3 miles1983
Rudolf Kunze Barn2.7 miles1994
Henry Schick Barn3.0 miles1983
US Post Office-Buhl Main3.1 miles1989
Ramona Theater3.2 miles1976

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83000293 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.
  • 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.