Upper Brownlee School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“The Upper Brownlee School is a historic school building located on Dry Buck Road near Sweet, Idaho, United States. The school was built in 1911 by the residents of Brownlee, one of the several small mining communities which had grown in the Boise River basin in the late 19th century.”
Wikipedia article Upper Brownlee School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Boise County · listed in 1998 · 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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Dry Buck Rd., 0.1 NE of jct. of Timber Butte Rd. and Dry Buck Rd., Sweet, 83670
When was it listed? March 1998
Category. building
Also known as. Public School Buildings in Idaho MPS
Census division. Horseshoe Bend
National Register reference number. 98000264 - 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

66 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Upper Brownlee School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 24,235 acres in total. 26 started naturally. 1 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	26
Equipment and vehicle use	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Debris and open burning	4
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Arson/incendiarism	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 2000	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	RANCHETTE ROAST
4 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	PINE
4 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	S. FK SOLDIER CREEK
3 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3,898 acres	Boise National Forest	CHIEF PARISH
3 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Boise District	COTTONWOOD
3 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Boise National Forest	PETERSON CREEK
29 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	DRY BUCK
29 September 1993	Smoking	40 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	LIBERTY MINE

Every fire recorded in Boise County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Upper Brownlee School: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Copper, Gold. 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
	Old Liberty Group	Silver, Copper, Gold	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Boise 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 98000264 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Boise County	All 4 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.