LaPierre Barn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“The LaPierre Barn, also known as Louis LaPierre's Horse Hotel, is a site on the National Register of Historic Places located near Scobey, Montana, United States. It was added to the Register on April 11, 2005.”
Wikipedia article LaPierre Barn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Daniels County · listed in 2005 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. Approx. 3.5 mi. NW of Scobey on Tande Ranch Rd., Scobey, 59263
When was it listed? April 2005
Category. building
Census division. Scobey
National Register reference number. 05000279 - 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

3 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of LaPierre Barn between 2017 and 2020, burning about 35 acres in total. None 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	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
30 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Daniels County	FDH-MTLG37-327
25 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	25 acres	Northeastern Land Office	not named
8 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Daniels County	FDH-MTLG37-56

Every fire recorded in Daniels 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 LaPierre Barn: 2 past producers. 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
	Four Buttes Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Leonard Bud Jensen	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Daniels County

Storms near this property

60 of 81 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Scobey, the town this property stands in, in 81 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 52 hail, 20 thunderstorm wind, 4 heavy rain, 3 flash flood. 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 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Scobey	$25,000	Thunderrstorm winds nicking southeast Daniels County did damage to a farm, destorying a barn, two grain bins and a corral.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Scobey	$10,000	Daniels County dispatch relayed a public report of a roof blown off a new addition to a home from thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Scobey	$6,000	Daniel County dispatch relayed a public report of 6 power poles blown down from thunderstorm wind gusts.
August 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Scobey	$6,000	A severe thunderstorm moved into Scobey while a concert was going on at the fair grounds. Loud speakers and equipment were blown off of the stage. Power was knocked out in parts of Scobey and the local radio station was off of the air.
June 2025	Hail	Scobey	-	Ping pong ball size hail was reported with a photo via social media.
August 2024	Hail	Scobey	-	A trained spotter reported hail up to the size of quarters.
August 2024	Hail	Scobey	-	Public reported hail up to the size of ping pong balls.
June 2023	Heavy Rain	Scobey	-	A trained spotter reported 2.85 inches of rain falling during a 2 hour period.
July 2023	Hail	Scobey	-	The public reported hail up to the size of quarters.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Scobey	-	Public reported, via Facebook, 65mph winds.
July 2020	Hail	Scobey	-	Public reported plentiful hail up to the size of ping pong balls, lasting for approximately 15 to 20 minutes.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Scobey	-	Trained spotter reported newly installed siding blown off of a house.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Scobey	-	Public reported 60 mph wind gusts.
July 2018	Hail	Scobey	-	Public reported quarter size hail.
July 2015	Hail	Scobey	-	Trained spotter reported quarter-sized hail with heavy rain.
September 2014	Hail	Scobey	-	Trained spotter reported half dollar-sized hail.
September 2014	Hail	Scobey	-	Trained spotter reported quarter- to half dollar-sized hail covering the ground.
September 2014	Hail	Scobey	-	Trained spotter reported quarter-sized hail.
July 2013	Hail	Scobey	-	Cooperative observer reported quarter-sized hail.
July 2012	Hail	Scobey	-	Spotter reported quarter-sized hail stones and estimated 50 mph winds gusts.
July 2012	Hail	Scobey	-	Spotter estimated quarter-sized hail stones.
July 2012	Hail	Scobey	-	Public estimated mostly dime-sized hail with some quarter-sized stones and reported heavy rain with water flowing down the streets.
July 2012	Hail	Scobey	-	Public estimated quarter-sized hail and water flowing down the streets.
August 2011	Hail	Scobey	-	Spotter reported dime-sized hail stones.
August 2011	Hail	Scobey	-	Spotter reports quarter-sized hail stones.
August 2011	Hail	Scobey	-	Spotter reported ping pong ball-sized hail stones.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Scobey	-	Spotter estimated 60 mph winds.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Scobey	-	Strong winds tore some siding from a house.
June 2011	Flash Flood	Scobey	-	At 1730 MST, French Lane (2 miles north of Scobey) was under water in five places. Highway 248 near Four Buttes had water over the road. The middle fork of the Poplar River near Scobey was flooding. Since 1330 MST, two inches (2.00) of rain fell. At 1754 MST, four miles northwest of Scobey, numerous creeks were flooding or running full. Also, several roads were flooding while coulees were full.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Scobey	-	Daniels County Dispatch reported 60 mph winds and heavy rain.
July 2010	Hail	Scobey	-	Very large hail of 3 to 4 inches were reported by the public.
July 2010	Hail	Scobey	-	At 1600 MST 10 miles southeast of Scobey spotter observed 1 inch hail and heavy rain which damaged crop. At 1605 MST 8 miles south-southeast of Scobey 0.75 hail fell.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Scobey	-	Spotter reported power poles downed; roofs were lifted off of small sheds as well.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Scobey	-	Person also reported hail with this storm.
July 2009	Heavy Rain	Scobey	-	Public reported 0.95 inches of rain with this storm.
July 2009	Hail	Scobey	-	Hail covered the ground up to two inches deep. Gardens wiped out in town with leaves and branches knocked down.
July 2009	Hail	Scobey	-	One inch of rain also fell.
August 2009	Hail	Scobey	-	Dime and Nickel size hail with heavy rain.
August 2009	Heavy Rain	Scobey	-	Rainfall of 1.5 inches accompanied hail with this thunderstorm.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Scobey	-	Pea size hail with estimated 50 to 60 mph wind gust, moving deck furniture.
June 2008	Heavy Rain	Scobey	-	One hour rainfall was measured at 2.25 inches.
July 2008	Hail	Scobey	-	The hail ranged from dime to nickel size and covered the ground.
July 2008	Hail	Scobey	-	Rainfall was measured at 2.10 inches.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Scobey	-	Pea size hail and heavy rain also occurred.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Scobey	-	The strong wind tore off an awning, and tore off a 20 by 12 foot deck from a house and was broken apart. A grain bin was destroyed and wound up in a field a few hundred yards from the house.
July 2001	Tornado (F0)	Scobey	-	Brief tornado occurred south of Scobey.
July 1998	Flash Flood	Scobey	-	Rain falling at the rate of three inches an hour caused the West Fork of the Poplar River to overflow its banks. A wagon train on its way to Wolf Point for the Wild Horse Stampede became bogged down. Water levels reached as high as the wagon's axles.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Scobey	-	no account filed
August 2010	Hail	Scobey	-	no account filed
August 2010	Hail	Scobey	-	no account filed
August 2010	Hail	Scobey	-	no account filed
July 2009	Hail	Scobey	-	no account filed
July 2009	Hail	Scobey	-	no account filed
July 2009	Hail	Scobey	-	no account filed
July 2009	Hail	Scobey	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Scobey	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Scobey	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Scobey	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Scobey	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Scobey	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Daniels 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
	Daniels County Courthouse	4.6 miles	1995
	Mansfield A. Daniels House	5.0 miles	1997

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05000279 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Daniels County	All 3 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.