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One of 20 National Register listings published here for Chouteau County · listed in 2000 · category: Site.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
West Quincy Granite Quarry
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
The listing
- Address. Flat Creek Rd., Square Butte, 59446
- When was it listed? March 2000
- Category. site
- Census division. Geraldine
- National Register reference number. 00000163 - 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
2 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of West Quincy Granite Quarry between 2018 and 2019, burning about 11 acres in total. 1 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 | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 August 2018 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Northeastern Land Office | not named |
| 20 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.7 acres | Judith Basin County | FDH-MTLG36-68 |
Storms near this property
7 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Square Butte, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1999 and 2016: 4 hail, 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Square Butte | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Hail | Square Butte | - | A thunderstorm dropped 2 inch diameter hail at Square Butte 1SW. Also, 1.75 inch diameter hail was reported at Winifred 12W and 2 inch diameter hail at Winifred 10W. |
| June 2016 | Hail | Square Butte | - | A thunderstorm dropped 2 inch diameter hail at Square Butte 1SW. |
| August 2014 | Heavy Rain | Square Butte | - | Heavy rain, measuring 0.70 inches in 20 minutes, was reported. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Square Butte | - | High wind gusts, measuring 56KT (64MPH), were reported. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Square Butte | - | Hail 1.00 inches (quarter sized) reported about 2 mi N of Square Butte, MT. |
| August 2002 | Hail | Square Butte | - | A severe thunderstorm produced 0.88 inch hail near Square Butte. |
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
5 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lonetree | 0.3 miles | 1980 | |
 | First National Bank of Geraldine | 4.1 miles | 2008 |
 | Geraldine Milwaukee Depot | 4.2 miles | 1997 |
| Square Butte School | 4.3 miles | 2013 | |
| Square Butte Jail | 4.4 miles | 1998 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 00000163 in Record Group 79. |
| Chouteau County | All 20 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.
- Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.