Medicine Rocks State Park

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.

From the record

One of 2 National Register listings published here for Carter County · listed in 2017 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 1141 MT 7, Ekalaka, 59313
When was it listed? January 2017
Category. district
Census division. Ekalaka
National Register reference number. 100000539 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Medicine Rocks State Park in 2015, burning under an acre in total. 1 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	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
30 August 2015	Natural	under an acre	Miles City Field Office	MEDICINE

Every fire recorded in Carter County

Storms near this property

60 of 105 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ekalaka, the town this property stands in, in 105 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 75 hail, 22 thunderstorm wind, 3 heavy rain, 3 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
April 2025	Hail	Ekalaka	-	Spotter reported 1.5 hail.
June 2025	Hail	Ekalaka	-	Facebook report .
June 2025	Hail	Ekalaka	-	Hail report.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Ekalaka	-	A severe thunderstorm moved across portions of Carter County during the early morning hours on the 13th. Very intense straight line winds from this thunderstorm downed \|30-35 large pine trees. In addition, a number of additional trees had limbs snapped.
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Ekalaka	-	Considerable damage occurred in the town of Ekalaka. The door from a newspaper building was blown off its hinges. An 80 foot tall 36 inch diameter Cottonwood tree was blown over along with numerous trailers being overturned. There was tree damage and power lines down all over town resulting in power outages. Other damages included blown down distribution poles and broken windows. In addition, four hangers and an enclosed private aircraft at the county airport suffered severe damage.
July 2011	Hail	Ekalaka	-	Many broken windows along with house siding being removed was reported.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Ekalaka	-	Winds were estimated to be around 70 mph. This combined with hail resulted in damage to the siding of a house and windows being blown out on the west side.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Ekalaka	-	A few power outages were reported.
August 2007	Hail	Ekalaka	-	Some minor crop damage was reported.
July 2007	Hail	Ekalaka	-	Very heavy rain also accompanied the hail.
June 2005	Hail	Ekalaka	-	Penny size hail reported by County Sheriff
June 2005	Hail	Ekalaka	-	Garden shredded
June 2005	Hail	Ekalaka	-	Leaves stripped from trees
May 2005	Heavy Rain	Ekalaka	-	2.12 inches of rain in Ekalaka (2-day total)
May 2005	Heavy Rain	Ekalaka	-	2.12 inches of rain in Ekalaka (2-day total)
June 2005	Hail	Ekalaka	-	Wind gusts to 60 mph
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Ekalaka	-	Some dime size hail
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Ekalaka	-	Aspen tree blown down
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Ekalaka	-	Four cattle shelters destroyed in Ridgeway. 400 gallon propane tank blown over. Cattle shelter blown into creek. Roof damage to houses. Wooden fences blown down.
August 2002	Wildfire	Ekalaka	-	Kraft Spring Complex: Begin Date: August 31, 2002End Date: September 9, 2002Acres Burned: 69,900Total Persons: 471Structural Loss: 1Cost: 2M
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Ekalaka	-	60 mph thunderstorm wind gust with dime sized hail
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Ekalaka	-	70 mph thunderstorm wind gust with nickel size hail
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Ekalaka	-	70 mph thunderstorm wind gust with dime size hail...2 foot diameter trees downed
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Ekalaka	-	65 mph thunderstorm winds with nickel size hail
June 2000	Hail	Ekalaka	-	Wind gusts 60 to 70 mph.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Ekalaka	-	60 mph thunderstorm wind gust
July 1999	Hail	Ekalaka	-	Spotter report of dime size hail.
August 1999	Hail	Ekalaka	-	Carter County Sheriff reported nickel size hail.
August 1999	Hail	Ekalaka	-	Spotter report of half dollar size hail.
June 1999	Hail	Ekalaka	-	Spotter report of dime size hail.
June 1999	Hail	Ekalaka	-	Spotter report of dime size hail.
August 1999	Hail	Ekalaka	-	Carter County Sheriff reported dime size hail.
June 1999	Hail	Ekalaka	-	Spotter report of dime size hail.
June 1999	Hail	Ekalaka	-	DES reported quarter size hail.
July 1999	Hail	Ekalaka	-	Spotter report of dime size hail.
July 1999	Hail	Ekalaka	-	Spotter report of dime size hail.
July 1998	Heavy Rain	Ekalaka	-	A spotter reported 0.72 inches of rainfall in 45 minutes.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Ekalaka	-	A spotter reported a thunderstorm with wind gusts to 60 mph.
July 2020	Hail	Ekalaka	-	no account filed
June 2020	Hail	Ekalaka	-	no account filed
July 2019	Hail	Ekalaka	-	no account filed
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Ekalaka	-	no account filed
May 2017	Hail	Ekalaka	-	no account filed
June 2016	Hail	Ekalaka	-	no account filed
June 2016	Hail	Ekalaka	-	no account filed
June 2016	Hail	Ekalaka	-	no account filed
August 2016	Hail	Ekalaka	-	no account filed
August 2016	Hail	Ekalaka	-	no account filed
June 2014	Hail	Ekalaka	-	no account filed
May 2013	Hail	Ekalaka	-	no account filed
May 2013	Hail	Ekalaka	-	no account filed
July 2011	Hail	Ekalaka	-	no account filed
July 2011	Hail	Ekalaka	-	no account filed
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Ekalaka	-	no account filed
July 2010	Hail	Ekalaka	-	no account filed
August 2009	Hail	Ekalaka	-	no account filed
August 2009	Hail	Ekalaka	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Ekalaka	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Ekalaka	-	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	Ekalaka	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carter 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 100000539 in Record Group 79.
Carter County	All 2 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.