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Photograph of Elmore County Courthouse
Photograph by John Stanton, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Elmore County Courthouse

Built in 1916 (Neoclassical architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“The Elmore County Courthouse is a historic building in Mountain Home, Idaho, and the courthouse of Elmore County, Idaho. Johnson with sandstone from Boise, and it was designed in the Classical Revival style by Wayland & Fennell.”

Wikipedia article Elmore County Courthouse (Idaho), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 23 National Register listings published here for Elmore County · listed in 1987 · category: Building · built in 1916, Neoclassical architecture.

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. 150 S. Fourth E, Mountain Home
  • When was it listed? September 1987
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. County Courthouses in Idaho MPS
  • When was it built? 1916
  • Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
  • National Register reference number. 87001584 - 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.

Storms near this property

13 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mountain Home, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 wildfire, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2024Thunderstorm WindMountain Home-Strong winds brought a tree down and damaged an outdoor pool near downtown Mountain Home, ID.
August 2023Heavy RainMountain Home-The CoCoRaHS station ID-EL-3 0.9 miles southwest of Mountain Home measured 1.32 inches of rain.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindMountain Home-A large tree partially was uprooted and fell on house near East Second Avenue in Mountain Home. Numerous small branches were down with diameters of 1 to 2 inches. A Porta Potty was blown over near Rosewood Park. Damage occurred during a thunderstorm with brief heavy rain which was described as wet downburst.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindMountain Home-The Mountain Home AFB ASOS recorded a wind gust of 69 knots and social media reported trees down in Mountain Home, Hammett, and Glenns Ferry.
May 2013Tornado (EF0)Mountain Home-Two photographs submitted by the public on Facebook show an EF-0 tornado about 10 miles northwest of Mountain Home. No damage was reported.
August 2013HailMountain Home-A trained spotter reported penny sized hail in Mountain Home, Idaho. Damage to a local business and power outages was also reported.
June 2009Flash FloodMountain Home-Several homes in Mountain Home, Idaho had water in the basement due to water flowing across the ground from heavy rain.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindMountain Home-A roof was lifted off a barn and tossed several hundred yards as it slowly disintegrated. Several animals were hurt by flying debris.
May 2004HailMountain Home-No know damage
August 2000WildfireMountain Home-A fire that was determined to be "human caused" burned 23,960 acres near Mountain Home. The Oregon Trail Fire, so named because it followed the path of the old pioneer trail, burned across Highway20, prompting a 5 hour closure of the road and at times threatened several homes. Several outbuildings and haystacks were destroyed and although some residents were temporarily evacuated, no homes were burned. The fire was contained on the 10th with suppression costs reaching $550K. Damage estimates were unavailable.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindMountain Home-no account filed
July 1997HailMountain Home-no account filed
July 1997HailMountain Home-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Elmore 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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 87001584 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Elmore CountyAll 23 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.
  • 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.