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One of 16 National Register listings published here for Stillwater County · listed in 2002 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
4K Ranch
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
The listing
- Address. Fiddler Creek Rd., Dean, 59028
- When was it listed? February 2002
- Category. district
- Census division. Absarokee
- National Register reference number. 02000049 - 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
10 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of 4K Ranch between 1996 and 2020, burning about 43 acres in total. 8 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 | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 August 2020 | Natural | under an acre | Custer Gallatin National Forest | LITTLE ROCK |
| 6 August 2020 | Natural | under an acre | Stillwater County | BENBOW |
| 31 August 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Custer Gallatin National Forest | HEART LAKE |
| 21 August 2010 | Smoking | 1.5 acres | Custer Gallatin National Forest | NYE ASSIST |
| 17 August 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Custer Gallatin National Forest | BENBOW |
| 17 August 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Custer Gallatin National Forest | BMCR |
| 16 August 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Custer Gallatin National Forest | FIDDLER CREEK |
| 16 August 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Custer Gallatin National Forest | EAST FIDDLER CREEK |
Mines and quarries near this property
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of 4K Ranch: 2 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Nickel, Palladium, Platinum, Cobalt, Gold, Silver, PGE, Platinum, Palladium, Rhodium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blitz | Platinum, Palladium, Rhodium, Gold, Copper, Nickel | Occurrence | ||
| Fishtail Creek Mine | Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Fishtail Creek Ni-Cu | Copper, Nickel, Palladium, Platinum, Cobalt, Gold, Silver, PGE | Occurrence | Chalcopyrite, Pentlandite, Pyrrhotite |
Storms near this property
3 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dean, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2020: 2 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.
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Dean School | 1.7 miles | 2019 |
| Dean School | 1.7 miles | 2019 |
| Torgrimson Place | 7.2 miles | 2001 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 02000049 in Record Group 79. |
| Stillwater County | All 16 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.