John A. Finch Caretaker's House

Built in 1903. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“Finch Caretaker's House is a historic house in Hayden Lake, Idaho. Finch, a significant investor in Coeur d'Alene's mines.”
Wikipedia article John A. Finch Caretaker's House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 45 National Register listings published here for Kootenai County · listed in 1987 · category: Building · built in 1903, by Kirtland Kelsey Cutter.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Finch, John A., Caretaker's House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 2160 Finch Rd., Hayden Lake, 83835
When was it listed? September 1987
Category. building
Census division. Coeur d'Alene
When was it built? 1903
Architect. Kirtland Kelsey Cutter
National Register reference number. 87001562 - 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

83 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of John A. Finch Caretaker's House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 49 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 5 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
Debris and open burning	22
Recreation and ceremony	19
Natural	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Arson/incendiarism	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Smoking	2
Fireworks	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
7 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	CHICKEN COOP
30 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	HAYDEN LAKE RD.
3 September 1994	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	PUMPKIN PATCH
27 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	SHENANDOAH
25 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	ATLAS 27
23 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Idaho Panhandle National Forest	DRY LOOP
2 September 2003	Smoking	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	SPORTSMAN
18 September 1994	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	GARBAGE FIRE

Every fire recorded in Kootenai County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of John A. Finch Caretaker's House: 8 producers, 2 past producers, 1 prospect. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Aluminum, Stone. 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
Powder Horn Pit	Stone	Producer
Stanley Hill Clay Deposit	Clay, Aluminum	Prospect	Clay
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Hayden Lake Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Hayden Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Hayden Shop	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Moen Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Kootenai 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
Clark House	1.5 miles	1978
Jacob and Cristina Thunborg House	3.8 miles	1985
East Hayden Lake School II	4.2 miles	1985
Prairie School II	4.8 miles	1985
Coeur d'Alene Garden District Historic District	5.6 miles	2025
Boyd and Alta Hamilton House	5.7 miles	2021

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87001562 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kootenai County	All 45 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.