Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.
From the record
“The Crow Creek Water Ditch is a historic water transportation system which brought water from Eureka Creek to where it was needed in gold placer mining in the Indian Creek drainage area where gold was discovered in 1866. It was built between 1866 and c.1875 originally to support gold mining, which required water, then later was used for farm and ranch irrigation.”
Wikipedia article Crow Creek Water Ditch, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 11 National Register listings published here for Broadwater County · listed in 2001 · category: Structure.
National Register reference number. 01000323 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
33 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Crow Creek Water Ditch
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 615 acres in total. 21 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
21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
7
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Firearms and explosives use
1
Recreation and ceremony
1
Smoking
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
120 workings within 5 miles of Crow Creek Water Ditch: 37 past producers, 33 occurrences, 27 prospects, 16 unknowns.
7 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Lead, Gold, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Townsend, the town this property stands in, in 36 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 22 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 1 lightning, 1 flood.
The reports record 1 death. 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.
A member of the public estimated hail size up to 2 inches in diameter. There are reports of house windows broken, car windshields cracked, and vehicles dented. the time of event was estimated.
Broadwater County Emergency Manager reported widespread snowmelt flooding for valley locations in the county. Water was entering basements of some homes. Some roadways were flooded too.
Thunderstorm outflow winds caused branches to be knocked off trees near the town of Townsend...which fell on nearby power lines...knocking them down. No hail reported...but there was a significant rain shower nearby at the time.
A severe thunderstorm produced an 82 mph wind gust at Canyon Ferry Lake near Townsend, and a 61 mph wind gust in the city of Townsend. Numerous trees and power lines were knocked down. Hail up to one quarter inch was reported.
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
4 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.
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.
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