US Post Office-Orofino Main

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

“The Orofino Main Post Office, known also as U.S. Post Office - Orofino Main, located at 320 Michigan Ave. in Orofino in Clearwater County, Idaho, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.”
Wikipedia article U.S. Post Office - Orofino Main, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Clearwater County · listed in 1989 · 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.
Listed as. US Post Office--Orofino Main - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 320 Michigan Ave., Orofino, 83544
When was it listed? March 1989
Category. building
Also known as. US Post Offices in Idaho 1900-1941 MPS
Census division. Nez Perce
National Register reference number. 89000133 - 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

219 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 219 fires within 5 miles of US Post Office-Orofino Main between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,939 acres in total. 42 started naturally. 20 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	75
Natural	42
Debris and open burning	35
Arson/incendiarism	20
Recreation and ceremony	12
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Fireworks	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Smoking	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Other causes	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
8 September 1997	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	EUREKA RIDGE
7 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1,900 acres	Maggie Creek Area Office	MM 49
7 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Clearwater Potlatch Timber Protective Association	RANCHETTES
6 September 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	CASCADE DRIVE
5 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Nez Perce Tribe	SLAUGHTER HOUSE
5 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	BEACH BUM
4 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	GREER CEDAR
4 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	AHSAHKA RIDGE

Every fire recorded in Clearwater County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of US Post Office-Orofino Main: 10 past producers, 3 occurrences, 3 producers, 2 unknowns. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Limestone, High Calcium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. 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
Clearwater Lime Products Co. Quarry	Limestone, General, Limestone, Ultra Pure	Past Producer	Limestone
Clearwater Lime Products Co. Quarry	Marble, Dimension, Limestone, General	Past Producer	Metamorphic
Clearwater Lime Products Co. Quarry	Limestone, Ultra Pure, Limestone, General	Past Producer	Limestone
Dworshak Dam Stone	Stone	Past Producer	Metamorphic
Fords Creek Pit	Stone, Dimension	Unknown
North Fork, Clearwater River	Gold, Platinum	Producer	Stream Placer
Olson Asbestos	Asbestos	Unknown
Orofino	Calcium	Occurrence
Sylvanite Gold-Copper Property	Gold, Copper	Occurrence
Clearwater	Limestone, General	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clearwater County

Storms near this property

31 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Orofino, the town this property stands in, in 31 storm reports between 1996 and 2013: 12 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 3 flood, 3 funnel cloud. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Orofino	$20,000	A trained spotter reported damage to a boat dock and several boats at the Dworshak Reservoir. Numerous trees were also reported blown down, causing a power outage in Orofino with fire starts.
December 2005	Flash Flood	Orofino	$15,000	no account filed
November 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Orofino	$10,000	Widespread power outages in the Orofino area. Trees Down near the prison, hospital and hidden valley areas. Storage building blown out on Highway 12 west of Orofino.
March 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Orofino	$4,000	Numerous pine and cedar trees were blown down by the wind in the Orofino area. The largest tree diameter was 28 inches. Many trees fell onto power lines causing highway 12 and other roads to close for up to 4 hours. Thirty percent of roof shingles were blown off.
August 2008	Hail	Orofino	$2,000	A trained spotter reported penny size hail and numerous trees and branches blown down from downtown Orofino to 5 miles northwest of Orofino.
April 2012	Hail	Orofino	-	A spotter estimated 1.00 inch hail 3 miles NE of Orofino.
April 2012	Hail	Orofino	-	A spotter estimated 1.25 inch hail 5 miles NE of Orofino.
April 2012	Hail	Orofino	-	Spotter estimated quarter sized hail 2 miles NW of Orofino.
April 2012	Hail	Orofino	-	A trained spotter estimated golf ball sized hail in Orofino.
August 2008	Hail	Orofino	-	A trained spotter reported penny size hail. The Dent, ID RAWAS observation station recorded a wind gust of 54 MPH.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Orofino	-	A trained spotter reported an estimated wind gust to 60 mph from a passing thunderstorm.
June 2007	Hail	Orofino	-	Trained spotters reported nickel and penny sized hail.
June 2007	Funnel Cloud	Orofino	-	Emergency manager relayed a live report of a funnel cloud near Orofino with thunderstorm winds up to 60 mph.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Orofino	-	Emergency manager, USFS personnel and storm spotters reported numerous large trees and limbs blown down (intermittantly) along the storm track.
June 2007	Hail	Orofino	-	Weather spotters reported penny sized hail 11 miles east of Orofino and golf ball sized hail over Cardiff.
June 2007	Tornado (EF0)	Orofino	-	Weather spotter 15 miles east of Orofino reported a brief tornado touchdown with nickel sized hail. No significant damage was observed.
June 2007	Hail	Orofino	-	Penny sized hail observed by spotter.
June 2007	Funnel Cloud	Orofino	-	Spotter reported funnel cloud with 0.75 inch diameter hail.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Orofino	-	Spotter reported numerous trees down across Highway 11 and Grangmont Road, as well as onto power lines.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Orofino	-	no account filed
April 2002	Flood	Orofino	-	no account filed
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Orofino	-	no account filed
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Orofino	-	no account filed
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Orofino	-	no account filed
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Orofino	-	no account filed
May 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Orofino	-	no account filed
May 1997	Funnel Cloud	Orofino	-	no account filed
October 1997	Hail	Orofino	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Orofino	-	no account filed
April 1996	Flood	Orofino	-	no account filed
April 1996	Flood	Orofino	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clearwater 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Orofino Historic District	0.3 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 89000133 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clearwater 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.
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.