Eagle Butte School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Chouteau County · listed in 2009 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. Eagle Butte School Rd., 23 mi. off MT 80, Fort Benton, 59446
When was it listed? January 2009
Category. building
Census division. Fort Benton
National Register reference number. 08001383 - 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

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Eagle Butte School between 2016 and 2019, burning about 1 acre 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	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
6 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Central Land Office	WEST DUTTON
12 June 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Chouteau County	FDH-MTLG19-25

Every fire recorded in Chouteau County

Storms near this property

3 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Benton, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1993 and 1995: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
May 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Fort Benton	$50,000	Trees and power lines down.
May 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Fort Benton	$5,000	Trees and power lines down.
June 1995	Hail	Fort Benton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chouteau 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
	Citadel Rock	5.9 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08001383 in Record Group 79.
Chouteau County	All 20 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.
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.