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Photograph of Independent Order of Odd Fellows Hall
Photograph by Ntsimp, CC0 1.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Independent Order of Odd Fellows Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“The Independent Order of Odd Fellows Hall in Ashton, Idaho, also known as the Ashton State Bank Building, was constructed in 1907 in Early Commercial architectural style. Its historical use was as a meeting hall and for businesses.”

Wikipedia article Independent Order of Odd Fellows Hall (Ashton, Idaho), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Fremont County · listed in 1997 · category: Building.

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. Jct. of 6th Ave. and Main St., Ashton, 83420
  • When was it listed? July 1997
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Ashton
  • National Register reference number. 97000763 - 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

3 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Independent Order of Odd Fellows Hall between 2004 and 2017, burning about 15 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Natural1

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
26 September 2005Naturalunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictSTRONG
1 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresCaribou-Targhee National ForestJUMP
6 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined13 acresIdaho Falls DistrictFREMONT COUNTY ASSIST 1

Every fire recorded in Fremont County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Independent Order of Odd Fellows Hall: 9 producers, 1 occurrence. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Geothermal. 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
Ashton Warm SpringsGeothermalOccurrence
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
State Pit Fr 51 SSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Fremont County

Storms near this property

23 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ashton, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 13 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 flood, 1 lightning. 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
August 2024Thunderstorm WindAshton$5,000Several trees and large tree limbs reported downed in Ashton.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindAshton$2,500Thunderstorm winds knocked over a large tree in Ashton onto a pickup truck.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindAshton$2,000Large tree limbs downed at Ashton Elementary School. Also portions of a wood and sheet metal roof blown off a building in the area.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindAshton$2,000Multiple downed and damaged power lines were reported from thunderstorm winds 1 mile south of Ashton.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindAshton$1,500A greenhouse was demolished in Ashton.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindAshton$1,000Fremont County Dispatch reported a tree down on wires along N 3400 E south of E 1000 N.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindAshton$200Tin siding was torn off an outbuilding by thunderstorm winds in Ashton.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindAshton-A 58 mph wind gust was recorded 2 miles west of Ashton.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindAshton-A 62 mph wind gust measured near Ashton.
July 2021HailAshton-One inch hail in Ashton.
July 2021HailAshton-One and a half inch hail measured in Ashton.
July 2021HailAshton-One inch hail recorded in Ashton.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindAshton-A tree was downed on Highland St near S 3rd St. Highland St was partially blocked.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindAshton-Numerous trees were reported down mainly in and around Ashton.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindAshton-Power outage occurred from a thunderstorm extending from Chester north to Ashton.
May 2016HailAshton-Hail of 1.25 inches reported by Emergency Manager in Ashton.
January 2009FloodAshton-The Arcadia canal overflowed 6 miles west of Ashton and flooded Sadorus Hill Road with 3 feet of water in spots covering 100 yards of the road.
August 2007HailAshton-Large hail and winds caused damage to grain fields in Ashton.
August 1997FloodAshton-Very heavy rain and pea-size hail caused some minor stream flooding.
June 1997HailAshton-Hail sizes ranged from one to 1.5 inches.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindAshton-no account filed
June 1996LightningAshton-no account filed
June 1996HailAshton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fremont 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Rankin Auto Court0.8 miles2022
Conant Creek Pegram Truss Railroad Bridge5.2 miles1997

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 97000763 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Fremont CountyAll 14 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.