Bearcreek Bank

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“Bearcreek Bank is a site on the National Register of Historic Places located in Bearcreek, Montana. It was added to the Register on March 31, 2004.”
Wikipedia article Bearcreek Bank, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 81 National Register listings published here for Carbon County · listed in 2004 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. Main and Second Sts., Beacreek, 59007
When was it listed? March 2004
Category. building
Census division. Red Lodge
Architectural style. Romanesque architecture
National Register reference number. 04000251 - 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

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Bearcreek Bank between 2002 and 2017, burning about 135 acres in total. 3 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	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
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
23 September 2007	Smoking	2.0 acres	Custer Gallatin National Forest	BEARCREEK ASSIST
11 August 2010	Natural	under an acre	Billings Field Office	LITTLE
23 July 2009	Natural	131 acres	Custer Gallatin National Forest	LARKIN MUTUAL AID
14 July 2002	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	MT. MAURICE
24 March 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Southern Land Office	6665 HWY 212
24 October 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Custer Gallatin National Forest	DRY CREEK ASSIST

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Bearcreek Bank: 1 producer, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Chromium, Silver, Gold, Uranium. 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	Recorded
Bay Horse	Silver, Gold	Prospect
Green Streak Claim	Uranium	Occurrence
Red Lodge	Chromium	Producer	Chromite, Magnetite

Every working recorded in Carbon 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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Bearcreek Cemetery	1.0 miles	2011
Smith Mine Historic District	1.5 miles	2009
Warila Boarding House and Sauna	4.6 miles	1985
Yodeler Motel	4.6 miles	2014
Red Lodge Commercial Historic District (Boundary Increase)	4.6 miles	1984
Regis Grocery	4.7 miles	2024

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04000251 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Carbon County	All 81 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.