Benewah County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“The Benewah County Courthouse is a building located in St. Maries, Idaho listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article Benewah County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Benewah 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. College Ave. and Seventh St., St. Maries, 83861
When was it listed? September 1987
Category. building
Also known as. County Courthouses in Idaho MPS
Census division. St. Maries
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
Architect. Julius Zittel
National Register reference number. 87001580 - 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

92 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Benewah County Courthouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 518 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 4 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
Natural	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Recreation and ceremony	11
Arson/incendiarism	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	UPPER SYRINGA
9 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Northern Idaho Agency	CASSANDRA HILLS
8 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	CHRISTMAS HILLS 2
7 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	TURTLE
6 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	CHRISTMAS HILLS
30 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	PARTY SCENE
29 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	WOLF DRAW
27 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	KITTLES

Every fire recorded in Benewah County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Benewah County Courthouse: 4 producers, 3 occurrences, 3 unknowns. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Kaolin, Stone, 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
Carmon Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
St. Maries Clay Occurrence	Brick Clay	Occurrence	Clay
Dement Pit	Stone	Producer
Mauro Pit	Stone	Producer
St. Maries Clay Occurrence	Kaolin	Occurrence
St. Maries Clay Occurrence	Kaolin	Occurrence
Joseph Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Stone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
Stone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
Stone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown

Every working recorded in Benewah 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

3 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
St. Maries Masonic Temple No. 63	0.2 miles	2011
Kootenai Inn	0.2 miles	1979
St. Maries 1910 Fire Memorial	0.9 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87001580 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Benewah County	All 8 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.