Carey Dome Fire Lookout

Built in 1934. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“The Carey Dome Fire Lookout is a fire lookout tower complex located in Payette National Forest, 9 miles north of United States Forest Service Burgdorf Guard Station, near Burgdorf in Idaho County, Idaho. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.”
Wikipedia article Carey Dome Fire Lookout, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 42 National Register listings published here for Idaho County · listed in 1994 · category: Building · built in 1934.

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 structuress, 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Nezperce National Forest, 9 mi. N of USFS Burgdorf Guard Sta, Burgdorf, 83549
When was it listed? March 1994
Category. building
Census division. Riggins
When was it built? 1934
National Register reference number. 94000268 - 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

53 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Carey Dome Fire Lookout between 1992 and 2016, burning about 39,271 acres in total. 50 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	50
Recreation and ceremony	1
Debris and open burning	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
7 September 2011	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	HACKETT
25 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Payette National Forest	DOME FIRE
2 September 2011	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	CAREY
17 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	MARSHALL MEADOWS
6 August 2001	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	FALL CREEK
4 August 2004	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	FALL
30 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	BEAR TRAP
30 August 1992	Natural	40 acres	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	not named

Every fire recorded in Idaho County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Carey Dome Fire Lookout: 13 prospects, 12 past producers, 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Gold, 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
Duerden Prospect	Silver, Lead, Zinc, Gold, Copper	Prospect	Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Covellite, Galena, Sphalerite
Gold Run Mine	Gold, Lead, Zinc, Copper	Past Producer	Vein
Golden Anchor Mine	Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc, Tungsten, Molybdenum	Past Producer	1914
Harris-Holte Mine	Gold, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Antimony	Past Producer	Vein
Hinkson - Bishop Mine	Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Antimony	Past Producer	Vein
Huntz Gulch Bar Claim	Gold, REE, Garnet, Thorium	Occurrence	Placer
Hyatt Deposit	Gold, Zinc, Lead	Past Producer	Vein
Jewell Deposit	Gold, Lead, Silver	Past Producer	Vein
Marygold #1-#8	Tungsten, Molybdenum, Copper, Gold	Prospect	1951
Sherman Howe Deposit	Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver	Past Producer	Vein

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94000268 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.