Built in 1907. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
From the record
“The Big Falls Inn, also known as Upper Mesa Falls Lodge, is located near Island Park, Idaho. It is on the western bank of Henrys Fork at Upper Mesa Falls in the Targhee National Forest.”
Wikipedia article Big Falls Inn, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 14 National Register listings published here for Fremont County · listed in 2002 · category: Building · built in 1907.
National Register reference number.94000131- 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
27 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Big Falls Inn
between 1992 and 2017, burning about 547 acres in total. 17 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
17
Recreation and ceremony
4
Arson/incendiarism
3
Smoking
1
Equipment and vehicle use
1
Debris and open burning
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
3 workings within 5 miles of Big Falls Inn: 3 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Island Park, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 5 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 flash 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.
One to 2 inches of rain fell in Fremont County over a 48 hour period and caused extensive flooding. A lot of flooding in the Rea area in the Yale Creek estates and Shotgun Complex areas north of Kilgore Yale Road. Flooding reported at Island Park Village Golf Course. Rushing water flooded private roads/driveways i Pine Crest area. Red Rock Pass Road and Forest Service Road 58 washed out near Duck Creek. Yale Creek flooded across S Beaver Sprigs Rd with damage to the road.
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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