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Mackay Methodist Episcopal Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“The Mackay Methodist Episcopal Church, located at Custer Street and Park Avenue in Mackay, Idaho, was built in 1901. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.”

Wikipedia article Mackay Methodist Episcopal Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Custer County · listed in 1984 · 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.
  • Address. Custer St. and Park Ave., Mackay, 83251
  • When was it listed? September 1984
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Mackay
  • National Register reference number. 84001118 - 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 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Mackay Methodist Episcopal Church between 1993 and 2015, burning about 121 acres in total. 5 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
Natural5
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1

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
21 September 2002Other causes73 acresTwin Falls DistrictCLIFF
15 August 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictMACKAY RES
4 July 2013Natural40 acresSalmon-Challis National ForestCLIFF
4 July 2007Fireworksunder an acreTwin Falls DistrictMACKEY
31 July 2012Naturalunder an acreSalmon-Challis National ForestCLIFF
31 July 2002Debris and open burning1.5 acresSalmon-Challis National ForestANDERSON
30 July 1994Naturalunder an acreSalmon-Challis National Forestnot named
22 July 2015Natural5.0 acresTwin Falls DistrictMINE HILL

Every fire recorded in Custer County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Mackay Methodist Episcopal Church: 11 past producers, 7 prospects, 3 producers, 2 occurrences. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Silver, Copper, Copper, Gold. 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
Black Daisy MineSilver, Lead, Gold, Copper, ZincPast ProducerVein
Champion GroupLead, Silver, Copper, Zinc, IronPast Producer
Champion MineCopper, Lead, Gold, Zinc, SilverProducer1895
Doughboy MineLead, Silver, Zinc, Gold, CopperPast Producer
Easlie Group MineLead, SilverPast ProducerGalena
Empire MineGold, Copper, Silver, Zinc, Molybdenum, Tungsten, LeadPast Producer1884, 1902
Grand Prize MineLead, Silver, Gold, CopperPast ProducerVein
Granite GroupIron, Silver, Copper, GoldProducerHematite
Horseshoe MineCopper, Silver, Lead, Gold, ZincPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Malachite, Marmatite, Sphalerite
Houston Clay OccurrenceClayOccurrenceSurface

Every working recorded in Custer County

Storms near this property

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mackay, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2023FloodMackay$20,000Forest Service road 135 washed away near the intersection of Bear Creek and Antelope Pass Roads. Rainfall combined with snow melt continued to create flooding in the Salmon Challis National Forest.
June 2018FloodMackay$10,000The Big Lost Wood River flooded at Leslie on Highway 93. Two homes were affected at the foundation with flooding. They were upstream of the Highway 93 bridge over the Big Lost River.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindMackay$2,000A large tree was blown down on a house with minor roof damage southeast of Mackay.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindMackay$1,000Power lines downed by thunderstorm winds just north of Mackay closing roads.
August 2014Tornado (EF0)Mackay-Multiple photographs of funnel cloud with a brief touch down 2 miles southeast of Mackay.
July 2007HailMackay-One inch hail fell four miles east southeast of Mackay.
August 2024HailMackay-no account filed
August 2024HailMackay-no account filed
August 1997HailMackay-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Custer 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

1 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
Mackay Episcopal Church0.2 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 84001118 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Custer CountyAll 33 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.