Charles and Martha Villeneuve House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“The Charles and Martha Villeneuve House, also known as the Herridge House, near Eagle, Idaho, is a Queen Anne house constructed of cobblestones from the Boise River in 1881. Ground floor stone walls are 12-14 inches thick, and the upper half story construction is wood frame with front and left side gables.”
Wikipedia article Charles and Martha Villeneuve House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 167 National Register listings published here for Ada County · listed in 1990 · 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. Villeneuve, Charles and Martha, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 7575 Moon Valley Rd., Eagle, 83616
When was it listed? November 1990
Category. building
Census division. Eagle
National Register reference number. 90001731 - 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

12 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Charles and Martha Villeneuve House between 1994 and 2019, burning about 5,076 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Firearms and explosives use	2
Natural	2
Debris and open burning	1
Smoking	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
3 August 2014	Firearms and explosives use	19 acres	Boise District	MM4 HWY16
24 August 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Boise District	FIREBIRD
30 July 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13 acres	Boise District	FIREBIRD
28 July 2010	Natural	4,675 acres	Boise District	BIG
28 July 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Boise District	MP4 HWY16
22 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Boise District	RA 2 ADA CO
22 July 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	253 acres	Boise District	LTTLE GLCH
12 July 2002	Smoking	37 acres	Boise District	DEEPCANYON

Every fire recorded in Ada County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Charles and Martha Villeneuve House: 14 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese. 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
Gold Dollar Mineral Claims	Manganese	Occurrence
Allen Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Ada County

Storms near this property

7 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eagle, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 wildfire, 1 tornado, 1 hail. 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
May 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Eagle	-	Several trees on a residential property were knocked down from thunderstorm outflow.
June 2023	Flood	Eagle	-	Street flooding with eight inches of standing water over the roads in Eagle was reported.
June 2022	Heavy Rain	Eagle	-	A social media report of 1.17 inches of rainfall on the night of June 5th occurred with a measured rainfall rate of 3.19 per hour.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Eagle	-	Social Media reported trees down from Eagle to Boise and throughout the Treasure Valley.
April 2012	Hail	Eagle	-	A trained spotter reported half dollar size hail and wind gusts to 75 MPH.
August 2000	Tornado (F0)	Eagle	-	no account filed
October 1997	Wildfire	Eagle	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ada 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
Star Camp	2.3 miles	2005
Sonner-Osier Farmstead Historic District	3.1 miles	2017
Eagle Adventist Schoolhouse	4.0 miles	1980
O. F. Short House	4.4 miles	1980
Bushnell-Fisher House	4.5 miles	2011
Orville Jackson House	4.7 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90001731 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ada County	All 167 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.