L.D.S. Ward Building

Built in 1933 (Tudor Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“Ward Building in Lava Hot Springs, Idaho was built in 1933. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.”
Wikipedia article L.D.S. Ward Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 30 National Register listings published here for Bannock County · listed in 1999 · category: Building · built in 1933, Tudor Revival architecture, by Miles Miller.

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. 187 S. 2nd Ave., Lava Hot Springs, 83246
When was it listed? December 1999
Category. building
Census division. South Bannock
When was it built? 1933
Architectural style. Tudor Revival architecture
Architect. Miles Miller
National Register reference number. 99001474 - 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

75 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of L.D.S. Ward Building between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,558 acres in total. 29 started naturally. 2 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	29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Fireworks	15
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Debris and open burning	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
5 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Falls District	MILL CREEK
4 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Falls District	FISH CREEK
3 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Idaho Falls District	WHEEL
2 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Bannock County	DEMPSEY
15 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	358 acres	Idaho Falls District	LAVA III
1 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Idaho Falls District	SPORTSMAN ACCESS
9 August 2013	Natural	132 acres	Idaho Falls District	FRANSON
8 August 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	200 acres	Idaho Falls District	SMITH CYN

Every fire recorded in Bannock County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of L.D.S. Ward Building: 5 occurrences, 4 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Magnesite, Manganese, Silica, 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	Recorded
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Laketown Dolomite	Stone, Magnesite	Prospect
Lava Hot Spring	Geothermal	Occurrence
Saturday Group Occurrence	Silica	Occurrence
Sunday Group Occurrence	Silica	Occurrence
Fish Haven Dolomite	Magnesite	Occurrence
Lava Hot Springs	Manganese	Past Producer	1955
Topaz Dolomite Mining Claim	Magnesite	Occurrence	Dolomite
Vanza Mine	Manganese	Past Producer	Psilomelane, Pyrolusite
Vanza Mine	Manganese	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Bannock 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

3 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Lava High School Gymnasium	under 500 feet	1997
Whitestone Hotel	0.3 miles	1980
Riverside Inn	0.4 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99001474 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Bannock County	All 30 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.