BlockFrom the record
One of 25 National Register listings published here for Valley County · listed in 1987 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Stibnite Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
The listing
- Address. US Forest Rd. 412, Yellow Pine, 83677
- When was it listed? July 1987
- Category. district
- Census division. Stibnite
- National Register reference number. 87001186 - 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 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Stibnite Historic District between 1992 and 2013, burning about 14,526 acres in total. 16 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 | 16 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 1996 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Payette National Forest | SUGAR MTN. |
| 23 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Payette National Forest | SUMMIT |
| 9 August 2006 | Natural | 2,360 acres | Payette National Forest | TAMARACK WFU |
| 8 August 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Payette National Forest | FIDDLE |
| 7 August 2006 | Natural | 2,650 acres | Payette National Forest | BISHOP CREEK |
| 5 August 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Payette National Forest | SUGAR |
| 3 August 2004 | Natural | under an acre | Boise National Forest | ANTIMONY |
| 24 August 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Payette National Forest | NO MANS |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 65 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 65 workings within 5 miles of Stibnite Historic District: 36 occurrences, 12 prospects, 11 past producers, 3 unknowns. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Mercury, Antimony, Gold, Antimony. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bonanza | Gold, Silver, Antimony | Prospect | ||
| Fern | Gold, Mercury, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Garnet Creek Prospect | Silver, Gold, Antimony | Occurrence | ||
| Hennessey Prospect | Antimony, Mercury | Prospect | Vein | |
| Hermes Mine (includes Fern Mine) | Mercury, Arsenic, Antimony | Past Producer | 1902, 1918 | |
| Kennedy | Copper, Gold, Molybdenum | Occurrence | ||
| Madam Queen | Copper, Molybdenum, Gold | Occurrence | ||
| Meadow Creek Mine | Antimony, Silver, Gold, Molybdenum, Copper | Past Producer | 1900, 1932 | |
| Meadow Creek Mine | Silver, Tungsten, Lead, Gold, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Monumental Summit Rare - Earth Prospect | Manganese, REE | Occurrence | 1966 |
Storms near this property
3 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yellow Pine, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2003 and 2022: 2 hail, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2022 | Hail | Yellow Pine | - | A spotter reported golf ball size hail from a thunderstorm passing nearby. |
| August 2003 | Flash Flood | Yellow Pine | - | Heavy rain washed out the road to Thunder Mountain on the east side of Monumental Summit. |
| June 2006 | Hail | Yellow Pine | - | no account filed |
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 87001186 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.
- 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.