Moncure Tipi

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Big Horn County · listed in 2002 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. MT 212, Busby, 59016
When was it listed? December 2002
Category. building
Census division. Northern Cheyenne Reservation
National Register reference number. 02001547 - 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

206 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 206 fires within 5 miles of Moncure Tipi between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,652 acres in total. 26 started naturally. 26 were 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
Debris and open burning	54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30
Natural	26
Arson/incendiarism	26
Misuse of fire by a minor	26
Fireworks	18
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Recreation and ceremony	6
Smoking	4
Other causes	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

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 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Northern Cheyenne Agency	EAGLES
9 September 1998	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Northern Cheyenne Agency	BALE
8 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Northern Cheyenne Agency	MORNING
8 September 1998	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Northern Cheyenne Agency	MATCH
7 September 2015	Natural	1.5 acres	Northern Cheyenne Agency	PARKER THREE
5 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northern Cheyenne Agency	CAYWOOD
4 September 2002	Natural	1.0 acres	Northern Cheyenne Agency	THUNDERBOL
25 September 1997	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Northern Cheyenne Agency	BUSBY FIRE

Every fire recorded in Big Horn County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Moncure Tipi: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Gravel Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Big Horn County

Storms near this property

13 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Busby, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1995 and 2007: 9 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Busby	$3,000	Wind damage with 60 mph winds. Trees downed.
June 2007	Heavy Rain	Busby	-	Rain reports from the event were 4.43 inches in 24 hours.
August 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Busby	-	Spotter report of 60 mph winds which downed 1 inch tree branches.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Busby	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Busby	-	no account filed
July 2005	Hail	Busby	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Busby	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Busby	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Busby	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Busby	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Busby	-	no account filed
July 1996	Hail	Busby	-	no account filed
August 1995	Hail	Busby	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Big Horn 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02001547 in Record Group 79.
Big Horn County	All 38 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.