Sweet Methodist Episcopal Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“The Sweet Methodist Episcopal Church, also known as Sweet United Methodist Church, is a historic church at 7200 Sweet-Ola Highway near Sweet, Idaho. The Late Gothic Revival style building was started in 1905 and was added to the National Register in 1997.”
Wikipedia article Sweet Methodist Episcopal Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Gem 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 listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 7200 Sweet-Ola Hwy, Sweet, 83670
When was it listed? July 1997
Category. building
Census division. Sweet
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 97000766 - 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

18 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Sweet Methodist Episcopal Church between 1992 and 2018, burning about 16,118 acres in total. 3 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
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Debris and open burning	3
Natural	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
25 September 1996	Railroad operations and maintenance	490 acres	Boise District	JOHNSON CR
11 September 1999	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	BROWNLEE
30 August 2017	Natural	51 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	SWEET
24 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Boise District	BUTTE ROAD
2 August 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	Boise District	REGANBUTTE
21 July 1992	Debris and open burning	200 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	SWEET
19 July 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	40 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	JC
18 July 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Boise District	FROZEN DOG

Every fire recorded in Gem County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Sweet Methodist Episcopal Church: 3 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Geothermal, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension, Sand and Gravel, Construction, REE. 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	Prospect
Johnson Creek	REE, Gold, Thorium	Occurrence
Lucky Gem	Uranium	Unknown
Old Liberty Group	Silver, Copper, Gold	Past Producer
Rock Quarry Mine	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension	Past Producer
Geothermal Location	Geothermal	Occurrence
Roystone Hot Spring	Geothermal	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Gem County

Storms near this property

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sweet, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
November 2024	Heavy Rain	Sweet	-	The mesonet station, OLSI1, at NRAWS 17, measured 1 inch of rain.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Sweet	-	Davis weather station at Jacobus Ranch.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Sweet	-	A trained spotter near Ola reported a wind gust of 66 MPH.
June 2010	Hail	Sweet	-	A trained spotter near Ola reported 1 inch hail.
April 1998	Hail	Sweet	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gem 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 97000766 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Gem County	All 10 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.