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One of 23 National Register listings published here for Sanders County · listed in 2021 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Paradise School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.
The listing
- Address. 2 Schoolhouse Hill Rd., Paradise, 59859
- When was it listed? March 2021
- Category. building
- Census division. Plains
- National Register reference number. 100006231 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
164 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 164 fires within 5 miles of Paradise School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9,675 acres in total. 80 started naturally. 4 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 | 80 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 |
| Debris and open burning | 14 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 12 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| 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 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Northwestern Land Office | not named |
| 8 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Northwestern Land Office | PARADISE GULCH # 2 |
| 8 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Lolo National Forest | SOUTH HENRY |
| 5 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Northwestern Land Office | ROGERS PASS |
| 4 September 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Northwestern Land Office | MCLAUGHLIN |
| 4 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Lolo National Forest | ORCHARD |
| 27 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Northwestern Land Office | ROUND HOUSE RD. |
| 23 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Northwestern Land Office | MCLAUGHLIN VAN |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 12 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Paradise School: 6 occurrences, 2 prospects, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Arsenic, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Antimony. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arsenic - Cobalt Occurrence | Arsenic, Cobalt, Copper | Occurrence | Chalcopyrite, Pyrrhotite | |
| Clark Bros. Universal #1. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Kendoy | Graphite | Occurrence | ||
| Montezuma | Lead, Antimony, Zinc | Prospect | ||
| Montezuma Prospect | Lead, Zinc, Antimony | Occurrence | ||
| Number 10 Tunnel Prospect | Silver, Lead, Gold, Zinc | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Quinns Hot Springs | Geothermal | Producer | ||
| Silver and Copper Prospect | Silver, Copper | Prospect | ||
| Unnamed Arsenic & Cobalt | Arsenic, Cobalt | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Flagstone Quarry | Flagstone | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
4 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Paradise, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1996 and 2006: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paradise | 1 hurt, $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Paradise | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Paradise | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paradise | - | no account filed |
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 100006231 in Record Group 79. |
| Sanders County | All 23 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.