St. Paul's Mission

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“Paul's Mission was a Jesuit mission church established in the Hudson's Bay Company's (HBC) Columbia District, in the Pacific Northwest region of North America, in the 1830s. The mission was built near the HBC's Fort Colville, on the bluff then overlooking Kettle Falls on the Columbia River.”
Wikipedia article St. Paul's Mission, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Ferry County · listed in 1974 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. W of Kettle Falls on Roosevelt Lake, Kettle Falls, 99141
When was it listed? November 1974
Category. building
National Register reference number. 74002259 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

256 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 256 fires within 5 miles of St. Paul's Mission between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,068 acres in total. 42 started naturally. 9 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	52
Recreation and ceremony	45
Natural	42
Debris and open burning	37
Fireworks	16
Railroad operations and maintenance	15
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Arson/incendiarism	9
Power generation/transmission/distribution	8
Other causes	5
Smoking	4

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
9 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	484 acres	Colville National Forest	BISBEE MOUNTAIN
8 September 2018	Natural	2.0 acres	Colville National Forest	SOUTH TROUT
7 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.8 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	KIFER ROAD
7 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area	KAMLOOPS
7 September 1994	Other causes	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
5 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area	CAMPFIRE41
5 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area	CAMPFIRE42
4 September 2019	Railroad operations and maintenance	13 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	PEACH CREST

Every fire recorded in Ferry County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 66 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 66 workings within 5 miles of St. Paul's Mission: 31 occurrences, 15 prospects, 13 past producers, 4 unknowns. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Gold, Copper, 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
Bonnie Group	Chromium	Past Producer
City View	Gold, Lead, Silver, Copper	Occurrence	Vein
City View	Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver	Prospect
Columbia River	Copper, Antimony, Gold, Silver	Producer	Chalcopyrite, Molybdenite, Pyrite, Tetrahedrite
Columbia, Coyote, Gray Eagle	Molybdenum, Copper, Gold, Silver	Occurrence	Vein
Cornet	Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver	Prospect
Gold Reef	Gold, Silver, Copper	Occurrence
Gold Reef	Gold, Silver, Copper	Past Producer
Gray Eagle Mine	Copper, Silver, Gold, Molybdenum, Lead	Past Producer	1900, 1903
Kettle Falls	Brick Clay	Occurrence	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Ferry 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
	Columbia River Bridge at Kettle Falls	0.5 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74002259 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ferry County	All 12 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.