Harrison Commercial Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“The Harrison Commercial Historic District, in Harrison, Idaho, is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. The listing included six contributing buildings.”
Wikipedia article Harrison Commercial Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 45 National Register listings published here for Kootenai County · listed in 1996 · 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 6 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Roughly bounded by N. Lake Ave., W. Harrison St., N. Coeur d'Alene., and Pine St., Harrison, 83833
When was it listed? December 1996
Category. district
Census division. Harrison
National Register reference number. 96001505 - 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

62 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Harrison Commercial Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 337 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning	20
Natural	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Recreation and ceremony	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Arson/incendiarism	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
7 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.5 acres	Mica Area Office	CONKLING
7 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11 acres	Mica Area Office	COTTONWOOD
7 September 2020	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	MANIFOLD
5 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	RUSSELL
3 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	2.4 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	POWDERHORN
3 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	BELL CANYON RD
29 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	APPLE ORCHARD
28 September 2009	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	COTTONWOOD

Every fire recorded in Kootenai County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Harrison Commercial Historic District: 4 producers, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Kootenai 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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Crane, Silas W., and Elizabeth, House	0.1 miles	1999
	Mullan Road	7.4 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96001505 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kootenai County	All 45 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.