Little Falls Hydroelectric Power Plant

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Little Falls Hydroelectric Power Plant, on the Spokane River near Reardan, Washington, about 30 miles (48 km) west of Spokane was built during 1907-10. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.”
Wikipedia article Little Falls Hydroelectric Power Plant, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Stevens County · listed in 1988 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Spokane River, Reardon, 99013
When was it listed? December 1988
Category. district
Also known as. Hydroelectric Power Plants in Washington State, 1890-1938 MPS
Census division. Spokane Reservation
National Register reference number. 88002737 - 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

367 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 367 fires within 5 miles of Little Falls Hydroelectric Power Plant between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,391 acres in total. 49 started naturally. 39 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
Debris and open burning	103
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	66
Natural	49
Arson/incendiarism	39
Recreation and ceremony	30
Fireworks	26
Equipment and vehicle use	19
Smoking	13
Misuse of fire by a minor	12
Other causes	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5

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 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Spokane Agency	not named
8 September 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	LONG LOOKOUT
8 September 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Spokane Agency	STRAWBERRY
8 September 2002	Smoking	under an acre	Spokane Agency	UNLUCKY DG
7 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Spokane Agency	MOTOR POOL
7 September 1998	Smoking	under an acre	Spokane Agency	GROUNDS
7 September 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Spokane Agency	not named
6 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	CHAMOKANE 2

Every fire recorded in Stevens County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Little Falls Hydroelectric Power Plant: 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Talc-Soapstone, Aluminum. 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
	C.W. Capps	Talc-Soapstone	Occurrence
	Pershell Clay	Aluminum	Unknown

Every working recorded in Stevens 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
	Long Lake Hydroelectric Power Plant	3.6 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88002737 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Stevens County	All 19 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.