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Spokane & International Railroad Construction Camp

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“The Spokane & International Railroad Construction Camp near Eastport, Idaho dates from 1905 when grading and construction of the Spokane & International Railroad began in this area. The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.”

Wikipedia article Spokane & International Railroad Construction Camp, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Boundary County · listed in 1994 · category: Site.

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

The listing

Fires near this property

45 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Spokane & International Railroad Construction Camp between 1992 and 2019, burning about 510 acres in total. 28 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
Natural28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Debris and open burning4
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
3 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestBRASS CREEK
2 September 2006Naturalunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestKREIST CREEK
7 August 2003Naturalunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestHARVEY CREEK
4 August 2003Natural2.4 acresIdaho Panhandle National ForestADDIE
31 August 2003Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestEASTPORT
29 August 2017Natural3.2 acresIdaho Panhandle National ForestBOUNDARY
22 August 2015Naturalunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestBRASS MONKEY
22 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestBUSSARD CABIN

Every fire recorded in Boundary County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Spokane & International Railroad Construction Camp: 4 prospects, 3 unknowns, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Gold, Lead, Zinc, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Big T ProspectSilver, Copper, Zinc, LeadProspect
Copper CreekGoldProspect
Geneva ClaimsLead, CopperProspect
Queen MineCopper, Gold, Lead, Zinc, SilverPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite
Tilley MineLead, Copper, Gold, Nickel, Silver, ZincProspect1952
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Copper Falls ProspectLeadOccurrenceVein
Geneva ClaimsLeadUnknown

Every working recorded in Boundary County

Storms near this property

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eastport, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2013: 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2013Thunderstorm WindEastport-A large tree was blown over onto Highway 95 at milepost 533.
May 2008FloodEastport-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boundary 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

1 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Snyder Guard Station Historical District5.6 miles1983

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 94000630 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Boundary CountyAll 8 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.