Hecla House

Built in 1881. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“The Hecla House, in Beaverhead County, Montana near Melrose, was built in 1881. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.”
Wikipedia article Hecla House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Beaverhead County · listed in 2005 · category: Building · built in 1881.

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. Approx. 11 mi. W of Glendale on Trapper Creek Rd. #188, Melrose, 59743
When was it listed? August 2005
Category. building
Census division. Dillon
When was it built? 1881
National Register reference number. 05000885 - 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

15 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Hecla House between 1994 and 2017, burning about 17 acres in total. 11 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	11
Recreation and ceremony	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
9 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	not named
27 August 1994	Natural	10 acres	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	not named
2 August 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	GREEN LAKE
19 August 2010	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	SAND LAKE
16 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	CHERRY CREEK
15 August 1998	Natural	5.0 acres	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	WAUKENA
14 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	ABUNDANCE
11 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	TRAPPER MINE FIRE

Every fire recorded in Beaverhead County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 38 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 38 workings within 5 miles of Hecla House: 18 past producers, 12 prospects, 4 occurrences, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead. 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
Big Four Mine	Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc	Producer
Big Four Mine	Gold, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Copper	Past Producer
Cannivan Gulch Prospect	Tungsten, Silver, Gold, Molybdenum	Occurrence	1900
Cleopatra Mine	Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc	Prospect
Hecla District	Lead, Copper, Silver, Gold, Zinc, Manganese	Producer	1872, 1873, 1965
Hecla Mines	Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc, Gold	Past Producer	Polymetallic Veins
Keokirk Mountain Prospect	Gold, Copper, Lead	Prospect
Keokirk-Elm Orlu Group	Silver, Copper, Gold	Past Producer	1872
New Ariadne Mine	Lead, Silver, Zinc, Copper	Past Producer
New Atlantis Mine	Silver, Lead, Gold, Copper, Zinc	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
	Canyon Creek Charcoal Kilns	6.2 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05000885 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.