SHOSHONE COUNTY
CEMETERY RIDGE
St Joe National Forest
47N-3E-35
47N-3E-35
1928: camp (Kresek)
1930: 10-foot pole tower with L-4 cab. (Kresek)
December 26, 1936: "Eleven victims of the Big Creek fire of 1910 were buried at the foot of a ridge halfway between the St. Joe and south fork of the Coeur d'Alene, on the St. Joe forest, south of Wallace and north of Calder, Idaho, and in recent years this ridge has, as consequence, been called Cemetery ridge, says Joe B. Halm of the Forest Service engineering department.
During the past week Cemetery ridge came into notoriety as figuring in an airplane tragedy, where the lives of two pilots were lost in a crash.
Mr. Halm has pictures taken of the graves at the foot of Cemetery ridge after the scorched bodies of the fire fighters who were caught in the roaring furnace on Big creek were temporarily brought there. Later the bodies were taken to the St. Maries cemetery, where more than a hundred 1910 fire victims rest.
Cemetery ridge was a local appellation, says Mr. Halm, and then was adopted officially on maps for the lookout on top of the mountain.
Mr. Halm was fighting fire at the head of the St. Joe and none of his men were destroyed in the flames which swept the country, though their escape from the catastrophe was regarded as nothing short of a miracle at the time." (Independent - Helena)
July 14, 1953: "A search party has located 14-year-old David Barney, Osborn, Ida., Boy Scout who has been missing from a fishing trip since Sunday night and has reported him in 'good shape,'
The boy was found at 2:45 a.m. MST on Cemetery ridge in the rugged north Idaho St. Joe country, according to police radio reports received here.
David was found near an unmanned forest service lookout station where search planes spotted a fire late yesterday.
Earlier, searchers had used the boy's collie dog from Spokane in efforts to trail the boy from Lake Elsie where he had been fishing with other scouts." (Idaho State Journal)
1964: Destroyed (Kresek)
