Deep Creek Ranger Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

From the record

“The Deep Creek Ranger Station in Bitterroot National Forest in Idaho County, Idaho was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is in the vicinity of Darby, Montana.”
Wikipedia article Deep Creek Ranger Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 42 National Register listings published here for Idaho County · listed in 2013 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. West Fork Ranger District, Bitterroot NF, Darby, MT.
When was it listed? December 2013
Category. district
Census division. Elk City
National Register reference number. 13000902 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

120 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of Deep Creek Ranger Station between 1992 and 2019, burning about 65,378 acres in total. 116 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	116
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
9 September 2011	Natural	521 acres	Bitterroot National Forest	HORSEJAW 2
7 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Bitterroot National Forest	HAYSTACK CR.
6 September 1999	Natural	215 acres	Bitterroot National Forest	MAGRUDER MTN.
6 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Bitterroot National Forest	LANGDON TRAIL
6 September 1997	Natural	10 acres	Bitterroot National Forest	KIM CR.
3 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Bitterroot National Forest	TRAILER
25 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Bitterroot National Forest	LUNCH CREEK
17 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Bitterroot National Forest	GOLD PAN

Every fire recorded in Idaho County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Deep Creek Ranger Station: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Idaho 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 13000902 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Idaho County	All 42 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.