Cold Meadows Guard Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“The Cold Meadows Guard Station is a ranger station located northeast of McCall, Idaho in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness and the Payette National Forest. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.”
Wikipedia article Cold Meadows Guard Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

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 5 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. NE of McCall, Frank Church--River of No Return Wilderness, Payette NF, McCall, 83611
When was it listed? August 1994
Category. district
Census division. Elk City
National Register reference number. 94001017 - 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

15 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Cold Meadows Guard Station between 1992 and 2015, burning about 2,523 acres in total. 14 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	14
Recreation and ceremony	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
16 September 1992	Natural	120 acres	Salmon-Challis National Forest	not named
6 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	MY CREEK WFU
6 August 2005	Natural	1,349 acres	Payette National Forest	STARVATION WFU
3 August 2007	Natural	400 acres	Payette National Forest	CAVE WFU
25 August 2011	Natural	65 acres	Payette National Forest	COTTONWOOD
20 August 2007	Natural	3.0 acres	Payette National Forest	WHIMSTICK WFU
16 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	IODINE
1 August 1992	Natural	under an acre	Salmon-Challis National Forest	not named

Every fire recorded in Idaho County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Cold Meadows Guard Station: 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Titanium, Iron, Zirconium, REE, Titanium, Mercury. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Cold Meadows Placer	Gold, Titanium, Iron	Prospect	Placer
	Root Ranch Placer	Gold, Zirconium, REE, Titanium, Mercury	Prospect	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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94001017 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.