Edgar Johnson House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“The Edgar Johnson House is a house located in Jerome, Idaho, United States, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is locally significant as an example of rural vernacular bungalow design, as well as lava rock craftsmanship.”
Wikipedia article Edgar Johnson House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 64 National Register listings published here for Jerome 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. Johnson, Edgar, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. S of Jerome, Jerome, 83338
When was it listed? September 1983
Category. building
Also known as. Lava Rock Structures in South Central Idaho TR
Census division. Jerome
National Register reference number. 83002340 - 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

65 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Edgar Johnson House between 1995 and 2020, burning about 12,967 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 3 were 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
Equipment and vehicle use	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Recreation and ceremony	8
Fireworks	6
Natural	5
Debris and open burning	5
Arson/incendiarism	3
Smoking	1
Other causes	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2012	Fireworks	58 acres	Twin Falls District	GOLF COURSE
8 September 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Twin Falls District	LASTDEVIL
22 September 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Twin Falls District	I84MP172
22 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Twin Falls District	84JUNCTION
2 September 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Twin Falls District	DEVILS CORRAL 2
1 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	48 acres	Twin Falls District	WARMSPRING
6 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Twin Falls District	AUGER
4 August 2017	Recreation and ceremony	55 acres	Twin Falls District	BLUE LAKES

Every fire recorded in Jerome County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Edgar Johnson House: 4 past producers, 3 unknowns, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Chromium, Pumice. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Cinder Pits	Pumice	Unknown
Snake River Placer Deposits	Gold, Iron, Chromium	Past Producer
Snake River Placers	Gold, Chromium, Iron	Past Producer	1862
Unnamed Location	Geothermal	Occurrence
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Snake River Placers	Gold	Past Producer	1862
Snake River Placers	Gold	Past Producer	1862

Every working recorded in Jerome County

Storms near this property

17 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jerome, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 flood, 1 tornado. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
February 2017	Flood	Jerome	$2,750,000	Rainfall and rapid melting of low elevation snowpack on top of frozen and saturated soil led to widespread flooding. Many roads around Jerome were damaged and closed due to flood waters. Widespread flooding of agricultural lands occurred.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Jerome	-	A tree branch with a width estimated to be 1.5 - 2 feet in diameter fell onto a parked car, causing significant damage to a parked car. Winds are estimated to be 65 MPH, given the size of the branch that fell while also taking into consideration that the branch appeared to be unhealthy in the image.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Jerome	-	The local newspaper reported that a barn had collapsed and power poles were down just north of Jerome.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Jerome	-	The Jerome Butte ITD station reported a wind gust of 64 MPH.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Jerome	-	One tree blown down and tin roofing removed from the roof of a barn in Jerome. Images forwarded by KMVT.
August 2014	Hail	Jerome	-	A trained spotter reported ping pong ball size hail covering most of the ground and damage to his corn crop.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Jerome	-	A wind gust of 60 MPH was reported at the Jerome ASOS.
May 2013	Tornado (EF0)	Jerome	-	A Jerome County deputy reported a brief tornado touchdown. No damage was reported.
August 2013	Hail	Jerome	-	Local media reported quarter sized hail around the Jerome, Idaho area.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Jerome	-	KMVT television station reported a large tree was uprooted in Jerome, Idaho.
January 2011	Flood	Jerome	-	The North Side Canal overflowed around the intersection of Tiger Drive and 16th Avenue East on Monday the 17th. City workers cleared mud and debris from streets and some homes and basements were flooded.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Jerome	-	Jerome County Sherrif dispatch reported trees and power lines down in the town of Jerome and the ASOS reported a wind gust of 67 MPH.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Jerome	-	Wide spread thunderstorms moved into in Jerome County. These storms brought, heavy rain and strong winds that blew down trees and caused power outages in Jerome and Gooding counties. Blowing dust across Interstate 84 with visibilities as low as 10 feet caused several accidents.
May 1998	Hail	Jerome	-	The Jerome County Sheriff reported 1.75 inch hailstones from a severe thunderstorm.
August 1997	Hail	Jerome	-	A spotter in Jerome reported 7/8 inch hail with an evening thunderstorm.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Jerome	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Jerome	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jerome 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Edward M. Gregg Farm	0.4 miles	1983
Dick Callen House	0.6 miles	1983
Canyonside School	1.1 miles	1983
Jay Van Hook Potato Cellar	1.3 miles	1983
O. J. Daniels House	1.9 miles	1983
George Epperson House	2.4 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83002340 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jerome County	All 64 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.