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Jacob and Cristina Thunborg House

Built in 1893. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The Jacob and Cristina Thunborg House is a historic log cabin located at Chicken Point in Hayden Lake, Idaho. It was built in 1893-1902 by Jacob Thunborg and his wife Cristina, two Swedish immigrants who became homesteaders in Idaho.”

Wikipedia article Jacob and Cristina Thunborg House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 45 National Register listings published here for Kootenai County · listed in 1985 · category: Building · built in 1893.

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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Thunborg, Jacob and Cristina, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Chicken Point, Hayden Lake, 83835
  • When was it listed? September 1985
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Coeur d'Alene
  • When was it built? 1893
  • National Register reference number. 85002156 - 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

127 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 127 fires within 5 miles of Jacob and Cristina Thunborg House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 69 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 4 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
Recreation and ceremony42
Debris and open burning27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Natural16
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestDEERFOOT
7 September 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestTRAIL 28
30 September 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestDRY GULCH
30 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsHAYDEN LAKE RD.
29 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestSUMMIT HUMP
27 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsSHENANDOAH
25 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestHUCK
23 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestMAGNET BERRIES

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 Jacob and Cristina Thunborg House: 4 producers, 2 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 prospect. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Silver, Lead, Gold, Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Burnt Cabin ProspectCopper, Gold, Silver, Lead, ZincProspectMesothermal Deposit
Commonwealth MineCopper, Silver, Gold, Zinc, Lead, Barium-BaritePast Producer1892
Great Western Copper ProspectCopper, Silver, Lead, GoldOccurrenceVein
Hayden Creek MinesSilverOccurrence
Shamrock ProspectLead, Silver, CopperPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Tetrahedrite
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hayden PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hayden ShopSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
East Hayden Lake School II0.5 miles1985
Clark House2.6 miles1978
John A. Finch Caretaker's House3.8 miles1987

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 85002156 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kootenai CountyAll 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.