Meinert Ranch Cabin

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“The Meinert Ranch Cabin is located 1.8 miles southwest of Red River Hot Springs on Red River-Beargrass Road 234, near Elk City in Idaho County, Idaho. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.”
Wikipedia article Meinert Ranch Cabin, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 42 National Register listings published here for Idaho County · listed in 1987 · 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1.8 mi. SW of Red River Hot Springs on Red River-Beargrass Rd. No. 234, Elk City, 83525
When was it listed? September 1987
Category. building
Census division. Elk City
National Register reference number. 87001561 - 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

98 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Meinert Ranch Cabin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 19,447 acres in total. 92 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	92
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Debris and open burning	1
Smoking	1
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
9 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	541
9 September 1999	Natural	1.5 acres	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	BUTTER
8 September 2017	Natural	2.6 acres	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	PANTHER
7 September 2006	Natural	under an acre	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	JUNGLE
5 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	BLACKHAWK
3 September 2006	Natural	7,200 acres	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	MEADOW
23 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	GRANITE SPRINGS
16 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	BUTTER

Every fire recorded in Idaho 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 Meinert Ranch Cabin: 3 past producers, 3 occurrences, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Copper, Zinc, Zinc, Copper, Lead, Silver, Copper, Zinc, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Alberta Prospect	Copper, Zinc, Silver, Gold	Occurrence	Vein
Hercules Prospect	Gold, Zinc, Copper, Lead, Silver	Prospect	1903
Red River Hot Spring	Geothermal	Occurrence
Red River Rock Quarry	Granite	Producer
Frisco Prospect	Gold, Silver, Copper, Zinc	Past Producer	Vein
Pasadena Prospect	Gold, Silver, Copper, Zinc	Past Producer	Vein
Bigfoot Mine No. 1	Gold	Past Producer
Union	Gold	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Idaho County

Storms near this property

8 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elk City, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 6 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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	Thunderstorm Wind	Elk City	-	Strong winds damaged trees which led to a power outage in the Elk City area.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Elk City	-	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	Elk City	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Elk City	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Elk City	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Elk City	-	no account filed
August 2003	Hail	Elk City	-	no account filed
April 1995	Hail	Elk City	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Idaho 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 87001561 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Idaho County	All 42 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.