Bishop Mountain Lookout

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Bishop Mountain Lookout, located near Island Park, Idaho, was created between 1936 and 1938 by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in the Caribou-Targhee National Forest. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, and its cabin is currently available as reserved accommodations through the United States Forest Service.”
Wikipedia article Bishop Mountain Lookout, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Fremont County · listed in 1986 · category: District.

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 3 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Forest Rd. 80120, Island Park, 83445
When was it listed? May 1986
Category. district
Census division. Island Park
National Register reference number. 86001184 - 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

18 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Bishop Mountain Lookout between 1994 and 2018, burning about 90 acres in total. 17 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	17
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
18 September 2018	Recreation and ceremony	70 acres	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	LYLE SPRINGS
18 September 2004	Natural	under an acre	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	ANTELOPE
15 September 2010	Natural	under an acre	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	COONEY
14 September 2010	Natural	under an acre	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	MOONSHINE
6 August 2004	Natural	under an acre	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	GOOSE
3 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	THURMON
25 August 2001	Natural	under an acre	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	ANTELOPE
23 August 2008	Natural	4.5 acres	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	ANTELOPE FLATS

Every fire recorded in Fremont County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bishop Mountain Lookout: 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Pumice, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	High Point Butte	Pumice	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Fremont County

Storms near this property

13 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Island Park, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 5 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 flash flood. 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 2022	Flood	Island Park	$10,000	One to 2 inches of rain fell in Fremont County over a 48 hour period and caused extensive flooding. A lot of flooding in the Rea area in the Yale Creek estates and Shotgun Complex areas north of Kilgore Yale Road. Flooding reported at Island Park Village Golf Course. Rushing water flooded private roads/driveways i Pine Crest area. Red Rock Pass Road and Forest Service Road 58 washed out near Duck Creek. Yale Creek flooded across S Beaver Sprigs Rd with damage to the road.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Island Park	$5,000	Four trees were downed by thunderstorm winds in Island Park causing roof damage and power line damage.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Island Park	$3,000	no account filed
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Island Park	$1,000	Large tree down at Elk Creek Estates.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Island Park	$500	Severe thunderstorm winds blew over two pine trees into a power line which started a small fire at East Pie Haven Drive in Island Park.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Island Park	-	The Osborne Bridge Idaho Transportation RWIS site measured 59 mph.
May 2018	Hail	Island Park	-	One inch hail reported at Island Park village Resort.
June 2016	Hail	Island Park	-	The public reported one inch hail in Island Park on June 28th at around 445 pm.
September 2013	Hail	Island Park	-	One inch hail observed in Island Park.
July 2011	Flash Flood	Island Park	-	Several small streams exceeded bankfull. Open fields were flooded.
July 2008	Hail	Island Park	-	Penny sized hail near Island Park.
May 2000	Hail	Island Park	-	no account filed
July 1996	Heavy Rain	Island Park	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fremont 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Island Park Land and Cattle Company Home Ranch	4.6 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86001184 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Fremont County	All 14 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.