Oneida County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“Oneida County Courthouse in Malad, Idaho is an Art Deco building built as a Works Project Administration (WPA) project in 1939. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.”
Wikipedia article Oneida County Courthouse (Idaho), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Oneida 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. Court St., Malad, 83252
When was it listed? November 1987
Category. building
Also known as. County Courthouses in Idaho MPS
Census division. Malad City
Architectural style. Art Deco architecture
Architect. Sundberg & Sundberg
National Register reference number. 87001588 - 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

29 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Oneida County Courthouse between 1992 and 2019, burning about 772 acres in total. 18 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	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Fireworks	1
Debris and open burning	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
6 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	Idaho Falls District	WESTON
14 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	FOUR MILE
13 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	DEEP CREEK 2
10 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	TWO MILE #2
9 August 1998	Natural	under an acre	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	TORO
25 August 2017	Natural	65 acres	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	ONEIDA COUNTY ASSIST 3
20 August 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	.TWO MILE
2 August 1996	Natural	1.5 acres	Idaho Falls District	DEEP CREEK

Every fire recorded in Oneida 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 Oneida County Courthouse: 6 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Geothermal, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Perlite. 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
Oneida Perlite Expanding Plant	Perlite	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Geothermal Location	Geothermal	Occurrence
Geothermal Location	Geothermal	Occurrence
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Oneida 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
United Presbyterian Church	under 500 feet	1979
Co-Op Block and J. N. Ireland Bank	under 500 feet	1979
D. L. Evans Sr. Bungalow	0.3 miles	1979
Malad Second Ward Tabernacle	0.3 miles	1979
Jedd Jones House	0.3 miles	1979
Samaria Historic District	6.9 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87001588 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Oneida 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.