BlockFrom the record
One of 81 National Register listings published here for Carbon County · listed in 2007 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Kero Farmstead Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
The listing
- Address. 223 W. Bench Rd., Roberts, 59070
- When was it listed? August 2007
- Category. district
- Census division. Red Lodge
- National Register reference number. 07000815 - 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
12 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Kero Farmstead Historic District between 2005 and 2020, burning about 11 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 | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2005 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6.0 acres | Custer Gallatin National Forest | ECKERT |
| 11 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Custer Gallatin National Forest | ANDERSON MUTUAL AID |
| 31 July 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Custer Gallatin National Forest | CLEAR CREEK ASSIST |
| 24 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southern Land Office | NEHMI |
| 14 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southern Land Office | 7700 US HIGHWAY 212 |
| 23 June 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southern Land Office | MOOSE TRACK |
| 20 June 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Southern Land Office | 559 CLEAR CREEK RD. |
| 17 May 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Custer Gallatin National Forest | TWO MILE MUTUAL AID |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Kero Farmstead Historic District: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jacob O. Joki | Manganese | Unknown |
Storms near this property
15 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roberts, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 10 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2025 | Hail | Roberts | - | One and a half inch hail reported. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Roberts | - | One and a half inch hail reported. |
| June 2023 | Flash Flood | Roberts | - | Cherry Springs road was washed out and was closed between Obert and Selms Road. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Roberts | - | Pea to quarter size hail was reported. |
| August 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roberts | - | Some trees were blown down, size unknown. |
| June 2007 | Flash Flood | Roberts | - | Several stretches of area roads were under water, including 212 and 78. Homes were flooded in Roberts. |
| June 2007 | Flash Flood | Roberts | - | Water was over the road on Highway 72 south of Belfry, with the highway closed in Wyoming. Flooding was reported on country roads in the area. |
| June 1999 | Hail | Roberts | - | Spotter report of dime size hail near Cooney Reservoir. |
| June 2023 | Funnel Cloud | Roberts | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Roberts | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Roberts | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Roberts | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Roberts | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Roberts | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Roberts | - | 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
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Henry Gebo House | 3.2 miles | 1987 | |
 | Kent Dairy Round Barn | 5.2 miles | 1995 |
| Red Lodge Brewing Company-Red Lodge Canning Company | 6.8 miles | 2007 | |
| Red Lodge Commercial Historic District (Boundary Increase) | 6.9 miles | 1984 | |
 | Red Lodge Communal Mausoleum | 7.0 miles | 2011 |
| Hi Bug Historic District | 7.1 miles | 1986 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 07000815 in Record Group 79. |
| Carbon County | All 81 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.