Ross Fork Oregon Short Lines Railroad Depot

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

One of 17 National Register listings published here for Bingham County · listed in 1984 · category: Building.

Sources: 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.
Address. Agency Rd., Fort Hall, 83202
When was it listed? September 1984
Category. building
Census division. Fort Hall
National Register reference number. 84001019 - 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

43 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Ross Fork Oregon Short Lines Railroad Depot between 1994 and 2020, burning about 5,233 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 1 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
Natural	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Fireworks	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Firearms and explosives use	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Smoking	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Recreation and ceremony	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 2005	Natural	63 acres	Fort Hall Agency	TRADING POST
4 September 2008	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Fort Hall Agency	FT HALL ASST 9
4 September 2008	Railroad operations and maintenance	5.0 acres	Fort Hall Agency	FT HALL ASST 8
11 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	13 acres	Idaho Falls District	MORNING
1 September 1996	Smoking	51 acres	Idaho Falls District	NORTHPOCA.
3 August 1999	Natural	1.0 acres	Idaho Falls District	HYRAM 3
28 August 2012	Natural	60 acres	Fort Hall Agency	FORT HALL ASSIST 2
23 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	1,134 acres	Idaho Falls District	ROSS FORK

Every fire recorded in Bingham County

Storms near this property

2 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Hall, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 1995: 1 tornado, 1 hail. 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
April 1995	Tornado (F0)	Fort Hall	$50,000	A series of tornados touch down in Bingham County causing damage to mobile homes, highway signs, and recreational equipment.
September 1995	Hail	Fort Hall	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bingham 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84001019 in Record Group 79.
Bingham County	All 17 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.