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Photograph of Adams County Courthouse
Photograph by Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Adams County Courthouse

Built in 1915 (Colonial Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“The Adams County Courthouse was a building located in Council, Idaho which was built in 1915. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.”

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

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Adams County · listed in 1987 · category: Building · built in 1915, Colonial Revival 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. Michigan St., Council, 83612
  • When was it listed? September 1987
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. County Courthouses in Idaho MPS
  • Census division. Council
  • When was it built? 1915
  • Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 87001599 - 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

41 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Adams County Courthouse between 1994 and 2020, burning about 35,653 acres in total. 26 started naturally. 1 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
Natural26
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony5
Debris and open burning3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2007Naturalunder an acrePayette National Forest2 SNAG
19 September 2013Naturalunder an acrePayette National ForestARBUCKLE
12 September 1998Naturalunder an acrePayette National ForestGROSSEN CANYON
7 August 2010Natural1.7 acresPayette National ForestCOOK HOUSE
4 August 2002Naturalunder an acrePayette National ForestORCHID
4 August 2002Naturalunder an acrePayette National ForestFROG POND
3 August 2009Natural26 acresPayette National ForestMILL CREEK 2
22 August 2013Equipment and vehicle use107 acresPayette National ForestMINK

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Adams County Courthouse: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Adams County

Storms near this property

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Council, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2012: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
June 2010Thunderstorm WindCouncil$50,000Adams County Emergency Manager reported the roof was blown off of a church in Council including roof damage to other homes in the area. Also, many large trees were down along a path into the northeast part of the county.
June 2012HailCouncil-Local media reported 1.00 inch hail in and around Council.
June 2010FloodCouncil-Flooding occurred across portions of Highway 95 and a trained spotter near Glendale reported over 1.30 inches of rain during an 11 hour period and flooding into fields along the Weiser River.
May 1998HailCouncil-A severe thunderstorm produced 3/4 inch hail at Council.
May 1997HailCouncil-A severe thunderstorm formed over the Central Mountains and produced 3/4 inch hail .
September 1998Thunderstorm WindCouncil-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Adams 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

1 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Council Ranger Stationunder 500 feet1992

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 87001599 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Adams CountyAll 7 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.