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One of 25 National Register listings published here for Valley County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Braddock Gold Mining and Milling Company Log Building and Forge Ruins
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
The listing
- Address. Off Pack Trail near Suicide Rock, Thunder City, 83611
- When was it listed? September 1985
- Category. building
- Census division. Stibnite
- National Register reference number. 85002157 - 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
16 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Braddock Gold Mining and Milling Company Log Building and Forge Ruins between 1992 and 2017, burning about 10 acres in total. 15 started naturally. None 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 | 15 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Payette National Forest | BLACK POLE |
| 21 September 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Payette National Forest | MILK |
| 18 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Payette National Forest | DIVIDE |
| 10 September 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Payette National Forest | COON |
| 8 August 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Payette National Forest | RAINBOW RIDGE |
| 7 August 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Payette National Forest | MARBLE |
| 7 August 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Payette National Forest | LIGHTNING |
| 19 August 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Payette National Forest | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 154 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 154 workings within 5 miles of Braddock Gold Mining and Milling Company Log Building and Forge Ruins: 91 occurrences, 49 prospects, 8 past producers, 4 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Gold, Silver, Silver, Gold. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bullion Group | Gold, Silver, Copper | Prospect | ||
| Climax Prospect | Molybdenum, Gold | Occurrence | Surface/Underground | |
| Dewey Mine | Gold, Silver, Titanium | Past Producer | 1894 | |
| Monument Prospect | Silica, Gold | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Monumental Creek Ranch Placer | Gold, Titanium, Zirconium | Past Producer | Placer | |
| New Hope Mine | Gold, Lead, Silver | Past Producer | Vein | |
| Tollenaar | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| Venable Mine | Copper, Silver, Gold, Lead | Past Producer | 1902 | |
| W. K. No. 1 Claim | Silver, Gold, Silica | Occurrence | Vein | |
| W.K. No. 1 Claim | Gold, Silver, Semiprecious Gemstone | Prospect |
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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 85002157 in Record Group 79. |
| Valley County | All 25 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.