Photograph of Milner Dam — Photograph by Unknown, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Milner Dam and the Twin Falls Main Canal

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Twin Falls County · listed in 1986 · category: Structure.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. Twin Falls Main Canal between Murtaugh and Milner Lakes, Murtaugh, 83344
When was it listed? July 1986
Category. structure
Census division. Murtaugh
National Register reference number. 86001720 - 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

26 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Milner Dam and the Twin Falls Main Canal between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,777 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Firearms and explosives use	1
Fireworks	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Natural	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Idaho Falls District	MURTAUGH
2 September 2005	Debris and open burning	588 acres	Idaho Falls District	MILNERBT
2 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Idaho Falls District	CEDARPOINT
10 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	2.5 acres	Idaho Falls District	BOATDOCKS
9 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	34 acres	Twin Falls District	CALDRON LINN
8 August 2006	Power generation/transmission/distribution	2.0 acres	Idaho Falls District	LAKE MILNER
4 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Falls District	LONE WOLF
29 August 2010	Recreation and ceremony	7.4 acres	Idaho Falls District	MILNER 2

Every fire recorded in Twin Falls County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Milner Dam and the Twin Falls Main Canal: 4 past producers, 4 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Murtaugh Placer Deposit	Gold	Past Producer	1862
Snake River Placers	Gold	Past Producer	1862
Unnamed Location	Gold	Occurrence
Unnamed Location	Gold	Occurrence
Unnamed Location	Gold	Occurrence
Unnamed Location	Gold	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Twin Falls County

Storms near this property

3 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Murtaugh, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2018: 2 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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
May 2018	Hail	Murtaugh	-	Social Media reported half dollar sized hail around the Murtaugh area.
September 2016	Funnel Cloud	Murtaugh	-	Social media reported and posted a photo of a funnel cloud near Murtaugh, Idaho around 4:00 PM MDT. Strong, gusty winds were also reported around the Twin Falls area.
June 1996	Hail	Murtaugh	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Twin Falls 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86001720 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Twin Falls County	All 40 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.