Cougar Gulch School III

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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Cougar Gulch Rd., Post Falls, 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. 85002094 - 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

89 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Cougar Gulch School III between 1992 and 2019, burning about 167 acres in total. 24 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
Debris and open burning	26
Natural	24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Recreation and ceremony	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	2
Fireworks	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 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	PRESLEY
7 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	SIGNAL POINT
27 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Coeur d'Alene Field Office	REDEMPTION
20 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	28 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	BIG ROCK 31
2 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	COUGAR ESTATES
18 September 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	MUNDT
16 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	HIENE
14 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	SIGNAL

Every fire recorded in Kootenai County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Cougar Gulch School III: 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Vermiculite, Gold, Silver. 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
Idaho Diamond Sulphide Group	Copper, Vermiculite, Gold, Silver	Prospect	Vein
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Kootenai County

Storms near this property

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Post Falls, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud. 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 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Post Falls	$15,000	Wind gusts to 62 mph on Lake Coeur d'Alene.
May 2020	Funnel Cloud	Post Falls	-	A brief funnel cloud was reported by the public in northeast Post Falls.
June 2018	Funnel Cloud	Post Falls	-	A member of the public photographed a weak funnel cloud near Rathdrum. The funnel cloud quickly dissipated.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Post Falls	-	On the evening of the 21st, a severe thunderstorm gust front moved across Kootenai County at around 715pm to about 815pm PST. The hardest hit towns were Post Falls and Rathdrum. In the town of Post Falls, many large trees were down along with about 10,000 homes without power. There were a few homes damaged by the winds. The town of Rathdrum had about 200 homes without power and trees down.
August 2008	Hail	Post Falls	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Post Falls	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Post Falls	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Post Falls	-	no account filed

Every storm 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

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
McGuires School	under 500 feet	1985
Mooney-Dahlberg Farmstead	5.1 miles	2009
Samuel and Ann Young House	5.3 miles	1997
Post Falls Community United Presbyterian Church	5.3 miles	1984
Pleasant View School II	5.3 miles	1985
Washington Water Power Bridges	5.3 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85002094 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.
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.