BlockFrom the record
One of 35 National Register listings published here for Park County · listed in 2005 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
John Hepburn Place
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 5 buildingss, 3 structuress, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Hepburn, John, Place - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 626 E. River Rd., Emigrant, 59027
- When was it listed? October 2005
- Category. building
- Census division. Gardiner-Cooke City
- National Register reference number. 05001177 - 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 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of John Hepburn Place between 1994 and 2007, burning about 15,230 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 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 1994 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Custer Gallatin National Forest | not named |
| 2 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 28 acres | Custer Gallatin National Forest | SIX MILE |
| 8 July 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Custer Gallatin National Forest | FORK |
| 30 July 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,202 acres | Custer Gallatin National Forest | SIX MILE |
| 29 July 2006 | Natural | 14,000 acres | Custer Gallatin National Forest | BIG CREEK |
| 29 June 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Custer Gallatin National Forest | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of John Hepburn Place: 4 unknowns, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Gold, Copper, Chromium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marble Claire | Silver, Copper | Unknown | ||
| Marve | Gold | Prospect | ||
| Morning Star | Silver, Chromium | Unknown | ||
| Little Chief | Silver | Unknown | ||
| Silver Star | Silver | Unknown |
Storms near this property
1 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Emigrant, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2002: 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2002 | Hail | Emigrant | - | no account filed |
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
3 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frederick and Josephine Bottler House | 3.3 miles | 2020 | |
 | Carbella Bridge | 7.1 miles | 2010 |
| Chico Hot Springs | 7.3 miles | 1998 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 05001177 in Record Group 79. |
| Park County | All 35 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.