Evaro School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

One of 90 National Register listings published here for Missoula County · listed in 2003 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 6688 Grooms Rd., Evaro, 59808
When was it listed? May 2003
Category. building
Census division. Frenchtown-Wye
National Register reference number. 03000321 - 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

123 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 123 fires within 5 miles of Evaro School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10,994 acres in total. 42 started naturally. 5 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
Natural	42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40
Debris and open burning	9
Railroad operations and maintenance	8
Recreation and ceremony	5
Arson/incendiarism	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Smoking	3
Fireworks	3

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 1996	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Southwestern Land Office	EVARO #2
27 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Flathead Agency	MCLURE
26 September 2014	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	Flathead Agency	WEST PINE
25 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Flathead Agency	SCHLEY
21 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	MARENT GULCH
12 September 2013	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Flathead Agency	SHEEP RANCH
12 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Flathead Agency	SCHLEY
1 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	BUTLER CREEK

Every fire recorded in Missoula County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Evaro School: 5 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Pumice, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Index Granite Prospect	Gold	Occurrence
Unknown	Pumice	Occurrence
Unknown	Pumice	Occurrence
Unnamed Pumice	Pumice	Occurrence
Unnamed Pumice	Pumice	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Missoula County

Storms near this property

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Evaro, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2008: 3 hail, 1 flash flood, 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
August 2008	Hail	Evaro	-	A trained spotter reported 0.75 inch hail with a passing thunderstorm.
August 2004	Hail	Evaro	-	no account filed
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Evaro	-	no account filed
May 1998	Flash Flood	Evaro	-	no account filed
July 1998	Hail	Evaro	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Missoula 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

2 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
	Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church	6.7 miles	1986
	DeSmet Schoolhouse	7.2 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03000321 in Record Group 79.
Missoula County	All 90 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.