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Photograph of Slayton Mercantile Co.
Photograph by JERRYE AND ROY KLOTZ MD, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Slayton Mercantile Co.

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The Slayton Mercantile Co. is a site on the National Register of Historic Places located at Main and First Streets in Lavina, Montana. It was added to the Register on December 28, 2000.”

Wikipedia article Slayton Mercantile Co., CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Golden Valley County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 23 Main St., Lavina, 59046
  • When was it listed? December 2000
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Lavina
  • National Register reference number. 00001567 - 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

7 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Slayton Mercantile Co. between 2015 and 2020, burning about 550 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
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Natural1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
28 August 2017Equipment and vehicle use200 acresSouthern Land OfficeWOMAN'S POCKET
17 August 2018Natural1.0 acresSouthern Land OfficeBENCH
15 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.3 acresGolden Valley CountyLEFELT HANSON
25 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresGolden Valley CountyFDH-MTLG53-374
25 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresGolden Valley CountyFDH-MTLG53-373
15 July 2020Smoking175 acresGolden Valley CountyCHAIN
22 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined160 acresBillings Field OfficeEGGE RD

Every fire recorded in Golden Valley County

Storms near this property

38 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lavina, the town this property stands in, in 38 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 33 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud, 1 flash flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2005Funnel CloudLavina-Strongly rotating wall cloud/mesocyclone noted by two observers near the Golden Valley/Musselshell County line 15 miles north of Lavina. The wall cloud extended as much as halfway down to the ground, but no tornado was reported.
August 1999Funnel CloudLavina-Funnel clouds were reported near Lavina.
August 1999HailLavina-Baseball size hail reported.
August 1999HailLavina-Golf ball size hail reported.
August 1999HailLavina-Quarter size hail reported.
June 1999HailLavina-Spotter report of dime size hail.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindLavina-A spotter reported a 60 mph wind gust.
June 1995HailLavina-Two inch hail broke windows on a house and truck.
June 1995HailLavina-Two inch hail broke windows on a house and truck.
May 2023HailLavina-no account filed
July 2021HailLavina-no account filed
May 2018HailLavina-no account filed
June 2013HailLavina-no account filed
June 2007HailLavina-no account filed
June 2007HailLavina-no account filed
June 2007HailLavina-no account filed
June 2007HailLavina-no account filed
June 2006HailLavina-no account filed
June 2006HailLavina-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindLavina-no account filed
August 2003HailLavina-no account filed
May 2002HailLavina-no account filed
June 2001HailLavina-no account filed
June 2001HailLavina-no account filed
June 2001HailLavina-no account filed
July 2001HailLavina-no account filed
July 2001HailLavina-no account filed
July 2001HailLavina-no account filed
July 2001HailLavina-no account filed
July 2001HailLavina-no account filed
July 2001HailLavina-no account filed
July 2001HailLavina-no account filed
July 2001HailLavina-no account filed
May 2000HailLavina-no account filed
May 2000HailLavina-no account filed
July 2000HailLavina-no account filed
August 1999Flash FloodLavina-no account filed
May 1996HailLavina-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Golden Valley 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

3 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Adams Hotelunder 500 feet2005
Lavina State Bank0.1 miles2007
Lavina School Historic District0.3 miles2023

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00001567 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Golden Valley CountyAll 7 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.