Canyon Creek Charcoal Kilns

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Beaverhead County · listed in 2005 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Approx. 5 mi. NW of Glendale on Forest Rd. 187, Glendale, 59727
When was it listed? June 2005
Category. district
Census division. Big Hole Basin
National Register reference number. 05000511 - 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

11 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Canyon Creek Charcoal Kilns between 1994 and 2015, burning about 6 acres in total. 7 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	7
Recreation and ceremony	3
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
7 September 2004	Smoking	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	CHARCOAL KILN
10 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	TWO MILE GULCH FIRE
26 July 1998	Natural	4.0 acres	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	JOYCE
14 July 2015	Natural	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	GREY
13 July 2004	Natural	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	CATTLE GULCH
13 July 2004	Natural	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	BONER
30 June 1994	Natural	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	not named
16 May 1994	Natural	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	not named

Every fire recorded in Beaverhead County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 47 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 47 workings within 5 miles of Canyon Creek Charcoal Kilns: 25 past producers, 16 prospects, 4 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Silver, Gold, Lead, Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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
Aurora Mine	Gold, Copper, Silver	Past Producer
Burgierosa Mine	Silver, Copper, Lead	Past Producer
Cannivan Gulch Prospect	Tungsten, Silver, Gold, Molybdenum	Occurrence	1900
Faithful Mine	Lead, Copper, Silver, Gold	Past Producer	Vein
Gray Jockey Mine	Silver, Copper, Lead, Gold	Past Producer	Vein
Great Western Mine	Silver, Gold, Copper	Prospect
Log Cabin Lode	Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc	Past Producer	Vein
Log Cabin Lode	Silver, Zinc, Copper, Lead	Prospect
Lone Pine Mine	Silver, Gold, Copper, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer	1865, 1867
Lucky Strike	Manganese	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Beaverhead 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
	Hecla House	6.2 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05000511 in Record Group 79.
Beaverhead County	All 25 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.