BlockFrom the record
One of 20 National Register listings published here for Powell County · listed in 2001 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Charter Oak Mine and Mill
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.
The listing
- Address. Forest Rd. 227 B-1, Helena National Forest, USDA Forest Service, Elliston, 59728
- When was it listed? February 2001
- Category. district
- Census division. Avon-Elliston
- National Register reference number. 01000038 - 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
38 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Charter Oak Mine and Mill between 1992 and 2018, burning about 121 acres in total. 20 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 | 20 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| 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 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Helena - Lewis and Clark National Forest | ELLISTON CREEK |
| 6 September 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Helena - Lewis and Clark National Forest | HAT CREEK |
| 6 September 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Southwestern Land Office | MIKE RENIG |
| 13 September 1996 | Natural | 3.5 acres | Southwestern Land Office | RENIG GULCH |
| 1 September 1994 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Helena - Lewis and Clark National Forest | not named |
| 5 August 2005 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Southwestern Land Office | not named |
| 5 August 2005 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 5.0 acres | Southwestern Land Office | not named |
| 3 August 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Southwestern Land Office | MIKE RENIG |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 71 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 71 workings within 5 miles of Charter Oak Mine and Mill: 36 past producers, 12 occurrences, 11 prospects, 9 unknowns. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Lead, Silver, Lead. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anna R. and Hattie M Mines | Silver, Gold, Copper, Lead | Past Producer | 1932 | |
| Big Dick Mine | Lead, Silver, Gold, Zinc, Arsenic | Past Producer | Vein | |
| Black Jack Mine | Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Arsenic | Past Producer | Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Sphalerite | |
| Blackfeet No. 1 | Lead, Silver, Gold, Zinc | Unknown | ||
| Bluebird | Zinc, Lead, Gold, Silver | Prospect | ||
| Bluebird | Quartz | Unknown | ||
| Carbonate King Mine | Silver, Lead, Zinc, Gold, Copper | Past Producer | Galena, Gold, Malachite, Sphalerite | |
| Charter Oak Mine | Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Gold, Antimony, Arsenic | Past Producer | 1916 | |
| Clark | Lead, Silver, Zinc | Prospect | ||
| Clark Mine | Copper, Zinc, Lead, Antimony | Occurrence | Galena, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite |
Storms near this property
6 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elliston, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 5 hail, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2013 | Hail | Elliston | $6,000 | A person from the public reported hail to the estimated size of ping pongs that caused damage to the roof to their house and extensive damage to their camper. The hail lasted for approximately 10 minutes. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elliston | - | The media reported A Montana woman was killed when a tree struck her during a weekend thunderstorm. She was reportedly running back to camp when a tree broke, striking her on the head. She died on the way to the hospital. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Elliston | - | The hail began at 11:45 pm MDT and lasted for 10 minutes. The estimated quarter-size hail fell in the last two minutes of the event. |
| July 1995 | Hail | Elliston | - | Report of one inch hail by a motorist on highway 12. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Elliston | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Elliston | - | no account filed |
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
1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MacDonald Pass Airway Beacon | 6.9 miles | 2014 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 01000038 in Record Group 79. |
| Powell 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.
- 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.
- 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.