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Lemhi Boarding School Girls Dormitory

Built in 1903. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“The Lemhi Boarding School Girls Dormitory is a historic building located on Hayden Creek Road near the community of Lemhi, Idaho. The dormitory is the only surviving building from the Lemhi Reservation, the native homeland of the Lemhi Shoshone.”

Wikipedia article Lemhi Boarding School Girls Dormitory, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Lemhi County · listed in 1998 · category: Building · built in 1903.

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. Hayden Creek Rd., 1/8 mi. SE of jct. with US 93, Lemhi, 83465
  • When was it listed? November 1998
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Leadore
  • When was it built? 1903
  • National Register reference number. 98001350 - 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

5 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Lemhi Boarding School Girls Dormitory between 1994 and 2015, burning about 74 acres in total. 4 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
Natural4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
6 September 1995Natural1.5 acresSalmon-Challis National ForestRESERVOIR
4 August 1994Natural3.0 acresIdaho Falls DistrictYEARIAN
11 August 2013Natural68 acresIdaho Falls DistrictZEPH
7 July 2007Natural1.3 acresIdaho Falls DistrictNAPO
1 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictLEMHI ASSIST 1

Every fire recorded in Lemhi County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Lemhi Boarding School Girls Dormitory: 11 occurrences, 3 past producers, 3 prospects, 2 unknowns. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Thorium, Copper, Iron, Dolomite. 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
Elkhorn GroupQuartzProspect
Fishcan MineSilver, CopperPast Producer
Laketown Dolomite OccurrenceDolomiteOccurrenceDolomite
Last Chance ProspectUranium, Thorium, CopperOccurrenceVein
Little Chief GroupGold, Thorium, SilverPast ProducerVein
McDevitt DistrictCopper, GoldProducerSHEAR ZONE
Se Lemhi Limestone OccurrenceLimestone, GeneralUnknown
Viola Claim GroupUranium, ThoriumOccurrence1955
Chief Tendoy GroupIronProspect
Little Saw Mill Creek Iron OccurrenceIronOccurrenceReplacement Vein

Every working recorded in Lemhi County

Storms near this property

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lemhi, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2009: 1 flood. 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
June 2009FloodLemhi$50,000Law enforcement reported three to four inches of water on portions of Highway 28 in areas between Lemhi and Leadore, with up to 12 inches of water flowing over Highway 28 near Lemhi. Precipitation amounts ranged between one to two inches in the area. Basement flooding and flooding of Macfarland Campground were reported.

Every storm recorded in Lemhi 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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 98001350 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lemhi CountyAll 13 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.