Werthheimer Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The Werthheimer Building is a one-story brick commercial building at 101 S. Main St. in Hailey, Idaho named for Leopold Werthheimer that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.”
Wikipedia article Werthheimer Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 21 National Register listings published here for Blaine County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 101 S. Main St., Hailey, 83333
When was it listed? September 1985
Category. building
Census division. Hailey-Bellevue
National Register reference number. 85002160 - 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

25 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Werthheimer Building between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,494 acres in total. 6 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	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Fireworks	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	1
Firearms and explosives use	1
Other causes	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
2 September 1999	Fireworks	18 acres	Twin Falls District	WOODSIDE
15 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	14 acres	Twin Falls District	SLAUGHTER
5 August 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	154 acres	Twin Falls District	CROY CREEK
3 August 1999	Natural	1.0 acres	Twin Falls District	INDIANCR
2 August 2011	Natural	1.5 acres	Twin Falls District	INDIAN CREEK
18 August 2004	Natural	under an acre	Twin Falls District	WATERGULCH
18 August 2002	Misuse of fire by a minor	1,046 acres	Twin Falls District	CHERRY CK
15 August 2002	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Twin Falls District	SLAUGHTER

Every fire recorded in Blaine County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 132 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 132 workings within 5 miles of Werthheimer Building: 52 past producers, 45 occurrences, 26 unknowns, 5 prospects. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Gold, Silver, Lead, 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
Ada Jane and Bismuth Claims	Arsenic, Molybdenum	Unknown
Arizona Group	Silver, Copper, Lead, Gold	Past Producer
Arizona Group Mine	Copper, Lead, Silver	Past Producer	Vein
Arkoosh Group	Silver, Lead, Gold, Copper	Past Producer
Chicago Mine	Silver, Copper	Past Producer	Vein
Climax	Lead, Gold, Copper, Silver	Past Producer
Climax Mine	Copper, Silver, Lead, Gold, Zinc	Past Producer	1882
Comet Mine	Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer	1883
Eureka Mine	Gold, Copper, Silver, Lead, Zinc	Producer	Galena, Sphalerite
Fifty-Fifty Claim	Lead, Zinc, Silver	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Blaine County

Storms near this property

21 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hailey, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 10 thunderstorm wind, 7 flood, 3 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
June 2023	Flood	Hailey	$1,900,000	Flooding due to the rise of the Big Wood River due to snowmelt and spring rains flooded parts of Hailey including War Eagle Drive, Flat Top Road, and Camp Creek Road. Damages were estimated at 1.9 million dollars on Flat Top Road and Camp Creek Road.
June 2018	Flood	Hailey	$950,000	Flooding of the Big Wood River for several months occurred in the Della View neighborhood of Hailey. It finally ended in June but the total cost of the extensive flooding period resulted in $750,000 of insurance claims in the neighborhood and $200,000 for flood response and public property cleanup.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Hailey	$15,000	Strong thunderstorm winds swept through a suburb of Hailey toppling numerous cottonwood trees up to 40 feet tall. One tree fell on a garage, damaging its roof, while another crushed a pump house. A camper trailer was forced off its legs; crushing one end.
April 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Hailey	$13,000	The Blaine County Emergency Manager reported several tree limbs down in the city of Hailey. This occurred along with downed power lines and roof damages to residences.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Hailey	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds toppled trees into a power line downing it in the city of Hailey.
September 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Hailey	-	A 58 mph wind gust measured at Ohio Gulch RAWS.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Hailey	-	A large tree fell on the hood of a car on Main Street in downtown Hailey near the northwest corner of Silver Street. It fell on the hood of a car and closed main street for about 60 minutes as crews worked on removal.
April 2019	Flood	Hailey	-	Several roads were closed by Blaine County Road and Bridge on April 8th in Hailey due to heavy snow melt. They were Parker Gulch, Rock Creek Rd, W. Glendale Rd, Road Canyon, Meacham Lane, and Dry Creek Rd.
April 2019	Flood	Hailey	-	Minor flooding began April 21st on War Eagle Drive in Hailey. Through access through the Della View neighborhood was shut down in western Hailey.
June 2019	Flood	Hailey	-	Some minor flooding occurred for several days in the Della area in Hailey with water reaching housed and some roads closed. Significant damage was not reported. The City of Hailey has placed hard road closures in the Della area from the West end of Cedar Street past Della Vista Dr ending at Triumph Dr. Water is running from the Draper Preserve area from the river.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Hailey	-	A tree snapped at the tip with a second tree downed on house but no damage reported in Hailey.
June 2015	Flash Flood	Hailey	-	By the morning of June 10th the Big Wood River was running across Colorado Gulch Road making it impassable. Colorado Gulch Rd. was closed on the East end at the vehicle gate.
September 2013	Flash Flood	Hailey	-	Heavy rains over the Beaver Creek Fire area caused mudslides in the Hailey area with four mudslides across Croy Creek Road and another which damaged the Animal Shelter of the Wood River Valley. The slides were as deep as a foot and a half on the north side of Croy Creek Road about a half mile west of the bridge over the Big Wood River in Hailey. 10 of the kennels of the animal shelter and 8 inches of mud in them. The mudslides began very late in the evening on September 2nd and were cleared by 7:30 AM on the 3rd.
September 2013	Flash Flood	Hailey	-	Rainfall amounts up to 1 inch in one hour caused debris flow in the Timber Gulch area and in the Greenhorn area near Hailey. The rains over the Beaver Creek fire burn scar contributed to the flooding.
April 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Hailey	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 mph reported 9 miles northeast of Hailey.
May 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Hailey	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several power lines in Hailey.
May 2006	Flood	Hailey	-	no account filed
June 2006	Flood	Hailey	-	no account filed
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Hailey	-	no account filed
July 1995	Hail	Hailey	-	no account filed
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Hailey	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Blaine 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
J. C. Fox Building	under 500 feet	1983
Rialto, Hotel, The	under 500 feet	2009
W. H. Watt Building	under 500 feet	1983
Emmanuel Episcopal Church	0.1 miles	1977
Blaine County Courthouse	0.1 miles	1978
Hailey Methodist Episcopal Church	0.2 miles	2017

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85002160 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Blaine County	All 21 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.