Bellgrove School II

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

One of 45 National Register listings published here for Kootenai County · listed in 1985 · 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 4 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Hamaker Rd., Rockford Bay, 83814
When was it listed? September 1985
Category. building
Also known as. Kootenai County Rural Schools TR
Census division. Coeur d'Alene
National Register reference number. 85002091 - 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

51 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Bellgrove School II between 1992 and 2018, burning about 115 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 2 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
Natural	17
Debris and open burning	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Arson/incendiarism	2
Fireworks	1
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
6 September 2012	Natural	1.5 acres	Northern Idaho Agency	STRINGHAM ROAD
5 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Northern Idaho Agency	VOGEL
4 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	RED HOG
30 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Coeur d'Alene Field Office	LOFFS BAY
25 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	BENNETT BAY 29
20 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	ROCKFORD BAY
2 September 1994	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	FIGHTING FIRE
18 September 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	MUNDT

Every fire recorded in Kootenai County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bellgrove School II: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Silver. 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
	Shoshone Mine	Lead, Zinc, Silver	Unknown

Every working recorded in Kootenai 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

2 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
	Cougar Gulch School III	7.3 miles	1985
	McGuires School	7.3 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85002091 in Record Group 79.
Kootenai County	All 45 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.