Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
From the record
“Forest Service ranger station in the Nez Perce National Forest near Kooskia, Idaho. The ranger station serves as the headquarters of the Moose Creek Ranger District, which encompasses 870,000 acres (350,000 ha) of the forest.”
Wikipedia article Fenn Ranger Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 42 National Register listings published here for Idaho County · listed in 1990 · category: District.
National Register reference number.90000931- 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
144 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 144 fires within 5 miles of Fenn Ranger Station
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 28,368 acres in total. 109 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
Natural
109
Recreation and ceremony
19
Power generation/transmission/distribution
4
Equipment and vehicle use
3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
3
Debris and open burning
3
Smoking
2
Arson/incendiarism
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of Fenn Ranger Station: 1 unknown, 1 occurrence.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Nickel. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Kooskia, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 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.
High winds from a thunderstorm along with wet soil conditions lead to considerable uprooted trees in East Kamiah. The greatest damage occurred along a two mile stretch of US-12 from Rock Road to the Kamiah Bridge. Trees fell across US-12 resulting in traffic disruption, in addition one residential trailer and one travel trailer were also damaged by falling trees.
Plugged culverts and heavy rainfall contributed to flooding on Main Street in Grangeville and also in Cottonwood. Rock slides and mud slides were reported along Highway 95 between Riggins and White Bird and also along Big Salmon Road east of Riggins. Rock slides, mud slides and fallen trees occurred on Highway 12 between Kooskia and Jerry Johnson Hot Springs. Water from Sevenmile Creek also flowed over Highway 162 at milepost 20. Debris flow caused the Lolo Creek bridge along the Clearwater and Idaho County line to wash out. The Clearwater River at Stites briefly spiked up to 8.86 feet in the minor flood category, but no major impacts were noted.
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.
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.
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