B-K Ranch

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

From the record

One of 104 National Register listings published here for Gallatin County · listed in 2006 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listed as. B--K Ranch - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 750 Lone Mountain Ranch Rd., Big Sky, 59716
When was it listed? December 2006
Category. district
Census division. Big Sky
National Register reference number. 06001185 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

35 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of B-K Ranch between 1992 and 2020, burning about 707 acres in total. 13 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	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Debris and open burning	2
Fireworks	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
8 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	LOW DOG
29 September 2008	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Custer Gallatin National Forest	SPANISH PEAKS
23 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	CRENSHAW BRIDGE
16 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	BIG SKY
15 September 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	LONE PEAK
12 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	SHACK
10 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	YELLOW MOUNTAIN
7 August 2016	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	PANCAKE

Every fire recorded in Gallatin County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of B-K Ranch: 8 occurrences, 4 prospects, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Asbestos, 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
Beehive Basin	Mica	Unknown
Last Chance Prospect	Copper, Gold, Silver	Occurrence
Last Chance Prospect	Iron	Prospect
Moon Lake Kyanite	Kyanite, Garnet	Occurrence
Table Mountain Prospect	Chromium, Asbestos	Occurrence	Vein
W. Fork-Gallatin River Phosphate	Phosphorus-Phosphates	Occurrence
Moon Lake Asbestos	Asbestos	Prospect
Moon Lake Asbestos Deposit	Asbestos	Occurrence	1892
Unidentified Occurance	Copper	Occurrence	Malachite
Unnamed Location	Copper	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Gallatin County

Storms near this property

7 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Big Sky, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2002 and 2018: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 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 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Big Sky	-	Mesonet station 5-miles WSW of Big Sky recorded 65-mph peak gust from thunderstorm. Elevation: 8622 feet MSL.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Big Sky	-	High winds estimated at 52KT (60MPH) were reported 9 mi NE of Big Sky, MT. A 2.5 foot diameter tree was blown down, blocking highway 191.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Big Sky	-	A thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 59 mph at Big Sky 7S (the Yellow Mule RAWS site - elevation 9200 feet).
August 2008	Hail	Big Sky	-	A severe thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Big Sky 2E.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Big Sky	-	A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 59 mph at Big Sky 6S (Yellow Mule RAWS site).
May 2002	Hail	Big Sky	-	A severe thunderstorm produced 0.75 inch hail in Big Sky.
June 2002	Hail	Big Sky	-	A severe thunderstorm produced 1.00 inch hail near Big Sky.

Every storm recorded in Gallatin 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
	Crail Ranch Buildings	0.7 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06001185 in Record Group 79.
Gallatin County	All 104 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.