Masonic Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

One of 39 National Register listings published here for Whitman County · listed in 1987 · category: Building.

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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Corner of Main and Second Sts., Farmington, 99128
When was it listed? February 1987
Category. building
Census division. Garfield-Oakesdale
National Register reference number. 87000057 - 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

15 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Masonic Hall between 1995 and 2020, burning about 26 acres in total. 7 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
Natural	7
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Debris and open burning	3
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
7 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	WEST LONE JACK
16 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	RUDDY
13 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Northern Idaho Agency	SKYLINE-2
7 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Northern Idaho Agency	OLDSHEEPCK
23 August 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	PIDGEON HOLLOW
12 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	MINERAL MOUNTAIN
11 August 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Northern Idaho Agency	SKYLINE
11 August 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Northern Idaho Agency	MORRISON

Every fire recorded in Whitman County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Masonic Hall: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Mccleary Butte	Iron	Past Producer
Stratton Butte	Silica	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Whitman 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
	R. C. McCroskey House	7.0 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87000057 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.