Denton J. Paul Water Tank

Built in 1918. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“Paul Water Tank near Dietrich, Idaho, United States, was built in c.1918, perhaps by stonemason Ignacio Berriochoa and his helper Julian Pagoaga; Berriochoa lived about three miles away. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.”
Wikipedia article Denton J. Paul Water Tank, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 42 National Register listings published here for Lincoln County · listed in 1983 · category: Building · built in 1918.

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. Paul, Denton J., Water Tank - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. E of Dietrich, Dietrich, 83324
When was it listed? September 1983
Category. building
Also known as. Lava Rock Structures in South Central Idaho TR
Census division. Richfield
When was it built? 1918
National Register reference number. 83002384 - 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

34 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Denton J. Paul Water Tank between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10,173 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 6 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	9
Natural	6
Arson/incendiarism	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Debris and open burning	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
7 September 1996	Debris and open burning	70 acres	Twin Falls District	STARELAKE2
3 September 1995	Natural	519 acres	Twin Falls District	DIETRICHBT
29 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Twin Falls District	BESSLEN1
29 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Twin Falls District	BESSLEN2
17 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	145 acres	Twin Falls District	CRATER
14 September 1998	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Twin Falls District	UPRRMP313S
29 August 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Twin Falls District	K2 FIRE
24 August 2005	Arson/incendiarism	1,424 acres	Twin Falls District	WINDY

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this property

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dietrich, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 3 wildfire, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 2 funnel cloud. 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
August 2000	Wildfire	Dietrich	$750,000	Lightning triggered the High Point fire, which quickly burned 20,300 total acres. Several silos and nearly 2000 acres of wheat, barley and pasture were destroyed. Caught and killed in the fast moving conflagration on the pasture were some 200 cattle.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Dietrich	$1,000	Numerous downed trees in DIetrich area. One tree limb fell onto RV in Dietrich causing 1 thousand dollars worth of damage.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Dietrich	-	Power outages reported from thunderstorm winds in the Dietrich area.
October 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Dietrich	-	Media reports power outages in Shoshone and Dietrich.
August 2014	Funnel Cloud	Dietrich	-	The Lincoln County sheriff reported a funnel cloud near Kinzie Butte.
August 2014	Funnel Cloud	Dietrich	-	The Lincoln County sheriff reported a funnel cloud at mile marker 42 on Highway 24.
September 2003	Wildfire	Dietrich	-	no account filed
June 1996	Heavy Rain	Dietrich	-	no account filed
June 1996	Heavy Rain	Dietrich	-	no account filed
July 1996	Wildfire	Dietrich	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
S. A. Bate Barn and Chicken House	1.8 miles	1983
Ignacio Berriochoa Farm	3.1 miles	1983
Daniel A. Hunt House	3.9 miles	1983
W. H. Baugh House	5.0 miles	1983
Manuel Silva Barn	6.1 miles	1983
Charles W. Dill House	6.2 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83002384 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lincoln County	All 42 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.