Avery Depot

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“The Avery Depot in Avery, Idaho was built by the Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget Sound Railway in 1909 as part of its Pacific Extension into the Pacific Northwest from Chicago, Illinois. Avery was the west end of overhead catenary, which allowed electric locomotives to operate instead of steam engines.”
Wikipedia article Avery station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 27 National Register listings published here for Shoshone 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. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific RR track, Avery, 83802
When was it listed? September 1984
Category. building
Also known as. North Idaho 1910 Fire Sites TR
Census division. Avery-Clarkia
Architect. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad
National Register reference number. 84001142 - 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

33 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Avery Depot between 1992 and 2017, burning about 56 acres in total. 24 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	24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Recreation and ceremony	1
Other causes	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Debris and open burning	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
8 September 2006	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Panhandle National Forest	STETSON
7 September 2006	Natural	3.5 acres	Idaho Panhandle National Forest	AVERY HILL
5 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Idaho Panhandle National Forest	AVERY DUMPSTER
3 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Panhandle National Forest	not named
20 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19 acres	Idaho Panhandle National Forest	not named
2 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Idaho Panhandle National Forest	not named
6 August 2010	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Panhandle National Forest	FISHHOOK
4 August 2017	Natural	20 acres	Idaho Panhandle National Forest	ROUNDHOUSE

Every fire recorded in Shoshone County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Avery Depot: 5 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc. 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
Cougar Group	Copper, Gold	Occurrence
Setser Prospect	Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc	Occurrence	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite
Setser Prospect	Zinc, Lead, Copper	Occurrence
Kelley Creek Prospect	Copper	Occurrence	Chalcopyrite
Kelley Creek Prospect	Copper	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Shoshone County

Storms near this property

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Avery, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2016: 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
June 2016	Hail	Avery	-	A member of the public reported 1 inch size hail covering the ground with estimated 45 mph winds at Avery, Idaho.

Every storm recorded in Shoshone 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Avery Ranger Station	0.1 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84001142 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Shoshone County	All 27 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.