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One of 25 National Register listings published here for Valley County · listed in 1990 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Southern Idaho Timber Protective Association (SITPA) Buildings
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 15 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. SR 55, Smiths Ferry, 83611
- When was it listed? May 1990
- Category. district
- Census division. Cascade
- National Register reference number. 90000681 - 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
96 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Southern Idaho Timber Protective Association (SITPA) Buildings between 1992 and 2020, burning about 288 acres in total. 53 started naturally. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 53 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 10 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Boise National Forest | WEST MOUNTAIN TRAIL |
| 7 September 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | VICTORY |
| 7 September 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | PINE CREEK |
| 5 September 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | ROUND VALLEY |
| 5 September 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | TRIPOD SUMMIT |
| 5 September 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | DARK HELMET |
| 30 September 1992 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Idaho Department of Lands | LODGE |
| 3 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Boise National Forest | HIGH |
Storms near this property
2 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Smiths Ferry, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 1 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2024 | Heavy Rain | Smiths Ferry | - | The mesonet station PNFI1 at Pine Creek measured 1.74 inches of rain. |
| July 1995 | Hail | Smiths Ferry | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | North Fork Payette River Bridge | 2.3 miles | 1999 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 90000681 in Record Group 79. |
| Valley County | All 25 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.
- 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.