Lilyquist-Christianson Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The Lilyquist-Christianson Building in Kuna, Idaho, is a 2-story brick building constructed by Charles Lilyquist in 1909. The building features a decorative brick cornice with raised corbeling between end brackets below a flat parapet roof.”
Wikipedia article Lilyquist-Christianson Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 167 National Register listings published here for Ada County · listed in 1999 · 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.
Listed as. Lilyquist--Christianson Building - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 459 W. Third, Kuna, 83634
When was it listed? April 1999
Category. building
Census division. Kuna
National Register reference number. 99000415 - 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

23 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Lilyquist-Christianson Building between 1993 and 2020, burning about 6,925 acres in total. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Fireworks	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Firearms and explosives use	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
3 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	29 acres	Boise District	BUTTE
28 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.7 acres	Boise District	BUTTE
31 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Boise District	CANAL
26 August 1996	Natural	5,756 acres	Boise District	KUNA
19 August 2019	Recreation and ceremony	1.5 acres	Boise District	EAGLE
18 August 2007	Firearms and explosives use	2.0 acres	Boise District	BUTTE
11 August 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	7.0 acres	Boise District	SHUCKS
5 July 2015	Fireworks	under an acre	Boise District	KUB

Every fire recorded in Ada 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 Lilyquist-Christianson Building: 5 past producers, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Ada Sand and Gravel Pit No 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Galey Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Kuna Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Swanfalls Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Ada County

Storms near this property

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kuna, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud, 1 hail. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
October 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Kuna	2 hurt	The public in Kuna reported several large trees, power lines and fences down, and car damage. The Boise Fire Department reported a lightning strike on a house 2 miles east of Boise. Two injuries were reported including two dogs that died in the fire.
June 2022	Hail	Kuna	-	A trained spotter confirmed hail was 1.25 inches wide.
October 2021	Funnel Cloud	Kuna	-	A trained spotter sent in video of a cold air funnel about 1 mile outside of Kuna, ID.
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Kuna	-	Idaho Power reported outages from thunderstorm winds throughout the Treasure Valley. Local media reported trees down and one vehicle damaged by a large branch.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Kuna	-	no account filed
July 2000	Tornado (F0)	Kuna	-	no account filed
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Kuna	-	no account filed
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Kuna	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ada 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Boise City-Silver City Road-Fick Property Segment	2.9 miles	1999
	Mittleider Farmstead Historic District	5.6 miles	2003

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99000415 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ada County	All 167 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.