Cheever-Cain Ranch

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

From the record

“Cheever-Cain Ranch is a historic ranch located at 8 Trails End Road in Powder River County, Montana, near the community of Volborg. George and Martha Cheever, along with their daughter Lucretia and her husband Ernest Shy, claimed the land under the Homestead Acts in 1905.”
Wikipedia article Cheever-Cain Ranch, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 2 National Register listings published here for Powder River County · listed in 2010 · category: District.

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

The listing

Listed as. Cheever--Cain Ranch - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 8 Trails End Rd., Volberg, 59351
When was it listed? April 2010
Category. district
Census division. Otter
National Register reference number. 10000184 - 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

102 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Cheever-Cain Ranch between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9,580 acres in total. 96 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	96
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
8 September 1998	Natural	2.0 acres	Miles City Field Office	SALE
7 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	DARLING
7 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Miles City Field Office	WHITETAIL
7 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	WHITETAIL #2
7 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Miles City Field Office	GREEN WELL
5 September 2002	Natural	12 acres	Custer Gallatin National Forest	LISCOM II
5 September 1995	Natural	1.0 acres	Custer Gallatin National Forest	WILBUR
10 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Miles City Field Office	STRAIGHT

Every fire recorded in Powder River County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cheever-Cain Ranch: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
	Scoria Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Powder River 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 10000184 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Powder River 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.
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.