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Ah Toy Garden

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“Ah Toy Garden is a garden located within Payette National Forest in Warren, Idaho, United States. The garden was established by the Chinese American community in order to grow fruits and vegetables to maintain a traditional Chinese diet while Chinese immigrant laborers worked in the mines.”

Wikipedia article Ah Toy 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 5 structuress, 3 sitess, 1 object 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. 90000893 - 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

59 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Ah Toy Garden between 1992 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. 56 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
Natural56
Recreation and ceremony1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
9 September 2006Naturalunder an acrePayette National ForestCHINA MOUNTAIN
8 September 2017Naturalunder an acrePayette National ForestLAWMAN
7 September 2019Naturalunder an acrePayette National ForestLITTLE BUCK
6 September 2019Naturalunder an acrePayette National ForestSLAUGHTER
6 September 2013Naturalunder an acrePayette National ForestWARREN SUMMIT
20 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresPayette National ForestPONY CREEK
17 September 2001Naturalunder an acrePayette National ForestSMITH FIRE
13 September 1996Naturalunder an acrePayette National ForestRATTLESNAKE

Every fire recorded in Idaho County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Ah Toy Garden: 7 past producers, 5 prospects, 5 occurrences. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
North MildredGold, CopperProspect
Pot of GoldCopperProspect
BensonMolybdenumOccurrenceMolybdenite, Pyrrhotite
CadbyMolybdenumOccurrence
South ForkMolybdenumOccurrence
Wheelbarrow Molybdenum ProspectMolybdenumProspect
Gold King MineGold, SilverPast ProducerVein
Horsefly MineGold, SilverPast Producer
Kingfish ProspectGold, SilverPast Producer
Little Joker MineGold, SilverPast 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Old China Trail0.4 miles1990
Chi-Sandra Garden0.4 miles1990
Celadon Slope Garden0.7 miles1990
Warren Guard Station, Building 12066.6 miles1994
Chinese Cemetery7.4 miles1994
Chinese Mining Camp Archeological Site7.7 miles1994

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 90000893 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Idaho CountyAll 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.