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One of 8 National Register listings published here for Benewah County · listed in 1984 · category: Site.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
St. Maries 1910 Fire Memorial
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
- Address. St. Maries Cemetery, St. Maries, 83861
- When was it listed? September 1984
- Category. site
- Also known as. North Idaho 1910 Fire Sites TR
- Census division. St. Maries
- National Register reference number. 84001010 - 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
107 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of St. Maries 1910 Fire Memorial between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,076 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 30 |
| Natural | 21 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 14 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 12 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Fireworks | 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 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | UPPER SYRINGA |
| 9 September 2012 | Natural | 10 acres | Northern Idaho Agency | UPPER ECHO |
| 9 September 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Northern Idaho Agency | CASSANDRA HILLS |
| 8 September 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | CHRISTMAS HILLS 2 |
| 7 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | TURTLE |
| 6 September 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | CHRISTMAS HILLS |
| 30 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | PARTY SCENE |
| 29 September 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | WOLF DRAW |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 12 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of St. Maries 1910 Fire Memorial: 4 producers, 4 occurrences, 4 unknowns. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Kaolin, Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benewah Lake Clay Occurrence | Clay | Occurrence | Clay | |
| Carmon Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| St. Maries Clay Occurrence | Brick Clay | Occurrence | Clay | |
| Dement Pit | Stone | Producer | ||
| Mauro Pit | Stone | Producer | ||
| St. Maries Clay Occurrence | Kaolin | Occurrence | ||
| St. Maries Clay Occurrence | Kaolin | Occurrence | ||
| Joseph Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Stone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| Stone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown |
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
3 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Kootenai Inn | 0.9 miles | 1979 |
 | St. Maries Masonic Temple No. 63 | 0.9 miles | 2011 |
 | Benewah County Courthouse | 0.9 miles | 1987 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 84001010 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Benewah County | All 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.