Indian Springs 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. ID 3, Medimont, 83861
When was it listed? September 1985
Category. building
Also known as. Kootenai County Rural Schools TR
Census division. Worley
National Register reference number. 85002096 - 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

55 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Indian Springs School II between 1992 and 2019, burning about 286 acres in total. 16 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	16
Debris and open burning	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
9 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Northern Idaho Agency	CASSANDRA HILLS
14 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Idaho Panhandle National Forest	not named
12 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	ROBINSON CREEK
12 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	HARRISON WYE
12 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Northern Idaho Agency	ROSEWOOD
12 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	BLACK LAKE
6 August 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	WELCOME HOME
6 August 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	BLACK LAKE RESORT

Every fire recorded in Kootenai County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Indian Springs School II: 4 unknowns, 3 prospects, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron. 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
Butte Mining Company Prospect	Lead, Zinc	Prospect	Galena, Sphalerite
Engle Mtn.	Silver, Lead, Gold, Copper	Unknown
Green Back Claim Group	Zinc, Silver, Lead	Prospect
Greenback Prospect	Iron	Occurrence
Jumbo Claim Group	Lead, Zinc, Silver	Unknown
Rainbow No. 3 Prospect	Lead, Silver, Copper, Zinc	Prospect	1907, 1930
Stone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

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

3 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
Cave Lake School	under 500 feet	1985
Mullan Road	5.8 miles	1990
Lane School II	6.8 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85002096 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.