- City:
- Bonanza, ID
- Site Type:
- Lodges, Ranger Stations and Visitor Centers, Parks and Recreation
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
- Started:
- 1934
- Completed:
- 1934
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
In 1934, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) enrollees constructed the fire Guard Station in Bonanza, Idaho. Bonanza is a former mining camp on the Yankee Fork of the Salmon River, near its confluence with Jordan Creek. Nothing is left of the town.
This small structure housed the Challis National Forest fire guard with responsibility for the Yankee Fork area, including the maintenance of the nearby Forest Service bathhouse at Sunbeam Hot Springs.
The Guard Station is still intact and occupied.
Source notes
"The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) established the Bonanza CCC Camp here and built the present guard station in 1934."
https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/scnf/about-forest/districts/?cid=fsbdev3_029695
Site originally submitted by Douglas Dodd on July 17, 2015.
Additional contributions by Richard Walker.
Site last updated on October 4, 2023.
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Alex Darnall
Where can I find more historical information on this site/area. My father was a US Army doctor assigned to Bonanza in 1933. At the time he was a Captain. He brought my mother with him and drove a Ford “fliver” from San Francisco, where he had been assigned at Letterman Hospital at the Presidio. We have a manuscript that he had written about he and mother’s experience there. His name was Carl R. Darnall a Captain in US Army Medical Corp.