North Fork Payette River Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Valley County · listed in 1999 · category: Structure.

Sources: 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 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. ID 55, Approx. 2.5 mi. N of Smiths Ferry, Smiths Ferry, 83611
When was it listed? April 1999
Category. structure
Census division. Cascade
National Register reference number. 99000416 - 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

110 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 110 fires within 5 miles of North Fork Payette River Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 204 acres in total. 52 started naturally. 5 were 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	52
Recreation and ceremony	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Smoking	10
Debris and open burning	10
Arson/incendiarism	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Fireworks	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
8 September 2006	Natural	under an acre	Boise National Forest	WEST MOUNTAIN TRAIL
7 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	VICTORY
7 September 2006	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	PINE CREEK
5 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	ROUND VALLEY
5 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	DARK HELMET
30 September 1992	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	LODGE
25 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	HERRICK RES
25 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Idaho Timber Protective Association, Idaho Department of Lands	SIXTY LANE

Every fire recorded in Valley County

Storms near this property

2 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Smiths Ferry, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 1 hail, 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	Smiths Ferry	-	The mesonet station PNFI1 at Pine Creek measured 1.74 inches of rain.
July 1995	Hail	Smiths Ferry	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Valley 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

1 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
	Southern Idaho Timber Protective Association (SITPA) Buildings	2.3 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99000416 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Valley County	All 25 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.
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.