Tower Rock

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“Tower Rock State Park is a state park near the community of Cascade in the U.S. state of Montana in the United States. The centerpiece of the park is Tower Rock, a 424-foot (129 m)-high rock formation which marks the entrance to the Missouri River Canyon in the Adel Mountains Volcanic Field.”
Wikipedia article Tower Rock State Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Cascade County · listed in 2002 · category: Site.

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

The listing

Address. 8 mi. S of Cascade at I-15 Interchange 247, Cascade, 59421
When was it listed? March 2002
Category. site
Census division. Cascade
National Register reference number. 02000213 - 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

49 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Tower Rock between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,946 acres in total. 19 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Natural	19
Debris and open burning	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Other causes	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
7 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Central Land Office	not named
6 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Central Land Office	TOWER ROCK
5 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Central Land Office	DEARBORN
5 September 2017	Other causes	16 acres	Central Land Office	BIG PINE LANE
4 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Central Land Office	DEARBORN
3 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Central Land Office	DEARBORN
16 September 2013	Natural	9.8 acres	Central Land Office	SUGARLOAF MTN
16 September 2013	Natural	1.5 acres	Central Land Office	ANDY CR

Every fire recorded in Cascade County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Tower Rock: 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Iron, REE, Titanium. 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
	Cascade Quarry	Stone	Producer
	Titanium Occurrence	Iron, REE, Titanium	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Cascade County

Storms near this property

34 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cascade, the town this property stands in, in 34 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 16 thunderstorm wind, 15 hail, 2 heavy rain, 1 funnel cloud. 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
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Cascade	-	Mesonet station MTM76 Cascade E MDA measured a severe gust.
May 2023	Heavy Rain	Cascade	-	Observer located about five miles south of Cascade reported 1.11 inches of rain fell over a 90 minute period.
July 2022	Heavy Rain	Cascade	-	Public report estimated about 2.30 inches of rainfall.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Cascade	-	Mesonet MTM76 Cascade e mda.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Cascade	-	Cascade MDA MTM76 measured a 56 kt (64 mph) thunderstorm wind gust.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Cascade	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 to 70 mph. Some trees down. Very heavy rain caused localized street flooding.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Cascade	-	A 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust in Cascade at 4:44 PM MDT.
May 2014	Hail	Cascade	-	Hail 0.88 inches (nickel sized) reported about in Cascade, MT.
June 2013	Hail	Cascade	-	Severe hail estimated at 1.00 inches in diameter (approximately quarter sized) was reported in Cascade, MT.
September 2013	Hail	Cascade	-	Hail measuring 1.75 inches (golf ball sized) was reported, along with damage to homes and vehicles, 20 mi S of Cascade, MT. Storm lasted about 15 minutes.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Cascade	-	High winds of 51KT (59MPH) were reported 21 mi SE of Cascade, MT.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Cascade	-	Outflow winds produced wind gusts measuring 57KT (65MPH) as reported 21 miles SE of Cascade.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Cascade	-	Strong outflow winds generated a gust to 63KT (72MPH) as measured 1 mile NW of Cascade.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Cascade	-	Wind gust of 58KT (67MPH) was reported at the Millegan station 20 miles SE of Cascade.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Cascade	-	A thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 60 mph at Cascade.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Cascade	-	A thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 68 mph was reported at Cascade 5S.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Cascade	-	A thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 60 mph at Cascade 17SSE. Numerous tree limbs up to 2 inches in diameter were reported down.
May 2007	Hail	Cascade	-	A severe thunderstorm dropped .75 inch diameter hail at Cascade 9SW.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Cascade	-	A severe thunderstorm produced a 70 mph wind gust at Cascade 20SE. 2x4"s were lifted off the ground.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Cascade	-	A severe thunderstorm produced a 60 mph wind gust at Cascade 20SE.
August 2001	Hail	Cascade	-	Actual event location Cascade 22 SE.
July 2006	Funnel Cloud	Cascade	-	no account filed
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Cascade	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Cascade	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Cascade	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Cascade	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Cascade	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Cascade	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Cascade	-	no account filed
September 2000	Hail	Cascade	-	no account filed
August 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Cascade	-	no account filed
August 1997	Hail	Cascade	-	no account filed
June 1997	Hail	Cascade	-	no account filed
July 1996	Hail	Cascade	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cascade 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Hardy Bridge	1.5 miles	2010

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02000213 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cascade County	All 43 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.