Warren Guard Station, Building 1206

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

From the record

“Warren Guard Station, Building 1206 was built in 1934. It was designed by architects of the United States Forest Service and was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps.”
Wikipedia article Warren Guard Station, Building 1206, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 42 National Register listings published here for Idaho County · listed in 1994 · category: Building · built in 1934, by architects of the United States Forest Service.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. SW side, Warren Wagon Rd., Forest HWY. 21, Warren, 83638
When was it listed? April 1994
Category. building
Census division. Riggins
When was it built? 1934
Architect. architects of the United States Forest Service
National Register reference number. 94000271 - 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

51 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Warren Guard Station, Building 1206 between 1992 and 2019, burning about 22 acres in total. 48 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	48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 September 2006	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	CHINA MOUNTAIN
6 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	SLAUGHTER
6 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	WARREN SUMMIT
3 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	MITCHEL
20 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Payette National Forest	PONY CREEK
9 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	THOMAS CR.
9 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	K-CREEK#1
9 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	K-CREEK #2

Every fire recorded in Idaho County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 99 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 99 workings within 5 miles of Warren Guard Station, Building 1206: 48 past producers, 28 occurrences, 21 prospects, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Gold, Silver, Zinc. 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
Charity Mine	Gold, Tungsten	Past Producer	1877
Dewey Vein Prospect	Gold, Silver, Lead, Antimony	Past Producer	Vein
Emily Mine	Gold, Silver, Garnet, REE, Titanium, Zirconium, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer	Vein
Goodenough Mine	Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer	Vein
Little Giant Mine	Silver, Gold, Tungsten, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer	1862, 1883
Potash Sulphur Springs	Vanadium	Past Producer
Red Ledge No. 6 Occurrence	Uranium, REE	Occurrence
Rescue Mine	Gold, Zinc, Lead, Silver	Producer	1868
Section 33 Lead - Zinc Vein	Lead, Zinc, Gold, Silver	Occurrence	Vein
Smith Creek Placers	Gold, REE, Mercury, Silver	Past Producer	Placer

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Chinese Cemetery	0.8 miles	1994
Chinese Mining Camp Archeological Site	1.1 miles	1994
Celadon Slope Garden	6.1 miles	1990
Old China Trail	6.3 miles	1990
Chi-Sandra Garden	6.4 miles	1990
Ah Toy Garden	6.6 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94000271 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.