BlockFrom the record
One of 39 National Register listings published here for Whitman County · listed in 1986 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Palouse Main Street Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
The listing
- Address. Main St. between K and Mary Sts., Palouse, 99161
- When was it listed? May 1986
- Category. district
- Census division. Colfax-Palouse
- National Register reference number. 86001026 - 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
1 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Palouse Main Street Historic District in 2019, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.6 acres | Idaho Department of Lands | CHANEY |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 14 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Palouse Main Street Historic District: 11 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory), Silica. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duffield Creek Quarry | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Palouse | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Ringo | Gemstone | Occurrence | ||
| Ringo Hills | Silica | Occurrence | ||
| Cox Pit | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Ringo | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
5 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Palouse, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 3 flood, 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Palouse | $30,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds damaged one vehicle, homes, and a local park. A trained spotter reported that the winds downed trees which caused the damage in Palouse, Washington. There were no known injuries. |
| February 2025 | Flood | Palouse | $5,000 | An estimated 3 feet of water in basement for several buildings along the Palouse River. |
| April 2012 | Flood | Palouse | $5,000 | Hayton Green Park in Palouse was flooded as well as the residence at 415 West Main Street near the park. Flooding was also observed up to the base of the house in the neighboring property. Damage was estimated. |
| August 2007 | Lightning | Palouse | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Flood | Palouse | - | An estimated 2 to 3 feet of flooding at the Lions Club Park from the Palouse River. |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Holy Trinity Episcopal Church | 0.3 miles | 2005 |
| F Street Bridge | 0.3 miles | 1982 | |
 | R. C. McCroskey House | 7.8 miles | 1974 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 86001026 in Record Group 79. |
| Whitman County | All 39 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.