Smith Mine Historic District

Built in 1906. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

“The Smith Mine Historic District, in Carbon County, Montana, near Bearcreek, Montana, is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. The district included 27 contributing buildings and 12 contributing structures on 200 acres (81 ha).”
Wikipedia article Smith Mine Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 81 National Register listings published here for Carbon County · listed in 2009 · category: District · built in 1906.

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

The listing

Address. MT 308, Bearcreek, 59007
When was it listed? September 2009
Category. district
Census division. Red Lodge
When was it built? 1906
National Register reference number. 09000788 - 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

16 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Smith Mine Historic District between 1996 and 2019, burning about 549 acres in total. 9 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	9
Debris and open burning	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Other causes	1
Smoking	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
23 September 2007	Smoking	2.0 acres	Custer Gallatin National Forest	BEARCREEK ASSIST
1 September 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Billings Field Office	GROVE CREEK
15 August 2006	Natural	2.0 acres	Custer Gallatin National Forest	MT MAURICE
14 August 1996	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	PALISADES
11 August 2010	Natural	under an acre	Billings Field Office	LITTLE
1 August 2018	Natural	under an acre	Southern Land Office	ELK
8 July 2017	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	MAURICE
7 July 2008	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	MEETEESE RIDGE

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Smith Mine Historic District: 3 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Uranium, Chromium. 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
Red Lodge	Chromium	Producer	Chromite, Magnetite
Bay Horse	Silver, Gold	Prospect
Green Streak Claim	Uranium	Occurrence
North Grove Creek Prospect	Gold, Silver	Occurrence
Weaver Property	Uranium	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Carbon County

Storms near this property

2 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bearcreek, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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	Bearcreek	-	no account filed
September 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Bearcreek	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carbon 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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Bearcreek Bank	1.5 miles	2004
Bearcreek Cemetery	2.5 miles	2011
Yodeler Motel	3.2 miles	2014
Warila Boarding House and Sauna	3.3 miles	1985
Regis Grocery	3.3 miles	2024
Red Lodge Commercial Historic District (Boundary Increase)	3.3 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09000788 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.