Elkhorn-Coolidge Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Beaverhead County · listed in 2008 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Forest Service Rd. #2465, approximately four miles SE. of jct. with MT 43, Wise River, 59746
When was it listed? September 2008
Category. district
Census division. Big Hole Basin
National Register reference number. 08000884 - 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

14 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Elkhorn-Coolidge Historic District between 1992 and 2016, burning about 4 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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
27 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	YANK MOOSE
7 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	CRYSTAL PARK
6 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	COOLIDGE
3 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	DAVID CREEK
26 August 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Central Land Office	GRASSHOPPER FIRE
24 August 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	WELLMAN
23 August 1997	Natural	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	CLARK CREEK
20 August 1992	Natural	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	not named

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 Elkhorn-Coolidge Historic District: 16 past producers, 12 prospects, 8 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Molybdenum, 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
Boston and Montana Group	Silver, Zinc, Lead, Gold, Copper	Past Producer
Comet Group	Silver, Gold, Copper, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer	Tetrahedrite
Crystal Park	Molybdenum, Titanium, Metal	Occurrence	1979
Elkhorn Hot Springs	Geothermal	Producer
Elkhorn Mine	Silver, Lead, Copper, Molybdenum	Past Producer	1872
Elkhorn Mine	Lead, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Gold, Molybdenum, Tungsten	Past Producer	1873, 1900
Guy Mine	Silver, Copper, Zinc, Gold, Lead, Molybdenum	Past Producer	1891
Guy Mine	Copper, Silver, Gold, Zinc	Past Producer
Jacobson Meadows	Molybdenum, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Lead, Tin	Occurrence	1978
Lively Mine	Copper, Zinc, Lead	Prospect

Every working recorded in Beaverhead County

Storms near this property

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wise River, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain. 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 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Wise River	-	RAWS station WRSM8 Wise River measured a 58 mph gust. Time estimated given RAWS only report once per hour.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Wise River	-	Measured via WRSM8 near Wise River.
June 2020	Heavy Rain	Wise River	-	Mesonet station Wise River raws wrsm8.
June 2020	Heavy Rain	Wise River	-	Mesonet station Beaverhead Deerlodge no. 1, tr267.
September 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Wise River	-	A 59 mph (51 kt) thunderstorm wind gust was reported at the Beaverhead Deerlodge mesonet station.
August 2009	Hail	Wise River	-	A severe thunderstorm dropped 2.75 inch diameter hail at Wise River 3S.
August 2009	Hail	Wise River	-	A severe thunderstorm dropped 1.75 inch diameter hail at Wise River.
August 2008	Hail	Wise River	-	A severe thunderstorm dropped .88 inch diameter hail at Wise River.
August 2001	Hail	Wise River	-	Actual spotter location Wise River 3 W...0.23 inches of rain also fell in less than 5 minutes.
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Wise River	-	Thunderstorm winds damaged a barn roof and some windows at Wise River.
June 2005	Hail	Wise River	-	no account filed
July 1997	Hail	Wise River	-	no account filed

Every storm 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08000884 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.
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.