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Edward Pulaski Tunnel and Placer Creek Escape Route
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
From the record
“The Edward Pulaski Tunnel and Placer Creek Escape Route are two adjacent sites used by the United States Forest Service firefighter Edward Pulaski in the Great Fire of 1910 to save the lives of himself and most of his crew. The sites are located south of Wallace, Idaho in the Idaho Panhandle National Forests.”
Wikipedia article Edward Pulaski Tunnel and Placer Creek Escape Route, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 27 National Register listings published here for Shoshone County · listed in 1984 · category: Site.
National Register reference number.84001179- 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
47 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Edward Pulaski Tunnel and Placer Creek Escape Route
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 33 acres in total. 29 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
29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
6
Recreation and ceremony
3
Fireworks
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
Debris and open burning
2
Equipment and vehicle use
1
Smoking
1
Arson/incendiarism
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
106 workings within 5 miles of Edward Pulaski Tunnel and Placer Creek Escape Route: 32 past producers, 30 occurrences, 22 prospects, 16 producers.
16 still produce. What was taken out: Silver, Lead, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Wallace, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2006: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood.
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.
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.
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.
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