Chi-Sandra Garden

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“Chi-Sandra Garden, also known as 10IH1779, is a garden located within Payette National Forest in Idaho, United States. The garden was established by the Chinese American community to feed migrant laborers who worked in the mines.”
Wikipedia article Chi-Sandra Garden, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 42 National Register listings published here for Idaho County · listed in 1990 · category: Site.

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 2 sitess as contributing to the listing.
Address. Along China Cr. near jct. with S. Fork Salmon R., Payette NF, Warren, 83638
When was it listed? June 1990
Category. site
Also known as. Chinese Sites in the Warren Mining District MPS
Census division. Riggins
National Register reference number. 90000892 - 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

61 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Chi-Sandra Garden between 1992 and 2020, burning about 38 acres in total. 58 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	58
Recreation and ceremony	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
9 September 2006	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	CHINA MOUNTAIN
8 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	LAWMAN
7 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	LITTLE BUCK
6 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	SLAUGHTER
6 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	WARREN SUMMIT
20 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Payette National Forest	PONY CREEK
17 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	SMITH FIRE
13 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	RATTLESNAKE

Every fire recorded in Idaho County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Chi-Sandra Garden: 9 past producers, 8 occurrences, 7 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Molybdenum, Copper. 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
Iola Mine	Gold, Silver, Copper	Past Producer	Vein
Red Ledge No. 6 Occurrence	Uranium, REE	Occurrence
North Mildred	Gold, Copper	Prospect
Pot of Gold	Copper	Prospect
Benson	Molybdenum	Occurrence	Molybdenite, Pyrrhotite
Cadby	Molybdenum	Occurrence
South Fork	Molybdenum	Occurrence
Wheelbarrow Molybdenum Prospect	Molybdenum	Prospect
Gold King Mine	Gold, Silver	Past Producer	Vein
Horsefly Mine	Gold, Silver	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Idaho 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
Old China Trail	0.2 miles	1990
Celadon Slope Garden	0.3 miles	1990
Ah Toy Garden	0.4 miles	1990
Warren Guard Station, Building 1206	6.4 miles	1994
Chinese Cemetery	7.1 miles	1994
Chinese Mining Camp Archeological Site	7.4 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90000892 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Idaho County	All 42 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.