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One of 45 National Register listings published here for Kootenai County · listed in 1996 · category: Structure.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Washington Water Power Bridges
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 structuress as contributing to the listing.
- Address. .5 mi. W of jct. of Spokane and 4th Sts., Post Falls, 83854
- When was it listed? December 1996
- Category. structure
- Census division. Post Falls-Rathdrum
- National Register reference number. 96001507 - 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
100 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Washington Water Power Bridges between 1992 and 2020, burning about 270 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 22 |
| Debris and open burning | 21 |
| Natural | 20 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 7 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Fireworks | 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 2002 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Idaho Department of Lands | CARPENTER |
| 5 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | STATESIDE SPOT |
| 4 September 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Idaho Department of Lands | FLATS |
| 26 September 1999 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | MEYERS RD 31 |
| 16 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | HIENE |
| 16 September 1992 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | ROCK BLUFF |
| 15 September 1994 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | ELECTRIC FENCE |
| 14 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | SIGNAL |
Mines and quarries near this property
8 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Washington Water Power Bridges: 4 past producers, 3 producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Murphy Brothers State Line Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Borrow Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Cpi Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Dalton Road Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Fuller Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
8 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Post Falls, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Post Falls | $15,000 | Wind gusts to 62 mph on Lake Coeur d'Alene. |
| May 2020 | Funnel Cloud | Post Falls | - | A brief funnel cloud was reported by the public in northeast Post Falls. |
| June 2018 | Funnel Cloud | Post Falls | - | A member of the public photographed a weak funnel cloud near Rathdrum. The funnel cloud quickly dissipated. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Post Falls | - | On the evening of the 21st, a severe thunderstorm gust front moved across Kootenai County at around 715pm to about 815pm PST. The hardest hit towns were Post Falls and Rathdrum. In the town of Post Falls, many large trees were down along with about 10,000 homes without power. There were a few homes damaged by the winds. The town of Rathdrum had about 200 homes without power and trees down. |
| August 2008 | Hail | Post Falls | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Post Falls | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Post Falls | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Post Falls | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Treaty Rock | 0.2 miles | 1992 | |
 | Samuel and Ann Young House | 0.3 miles | 1997 |
 | Post Falls Community United Presbyterian Church | 0.4 miles | 1984 |
| Spokane Valley Land and Water Company Canal | 1.0 miles | 2003 | |
 | Pleasant View School II | 2.7 miles | 1985 |
 | Prairie School II | 4.9 miles | 1985 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 96001507 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.
- 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.