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One of 92 National Register listings published here for Ravalli County · listed in 2018 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Gird Point Lookout
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Gird Pt., Sapphire Mts., Bitterroot NF, Hamilton, 59840
- When was it listed? April 2018
- Category. building
- Also known as. L-4 Fire Lookouts in the USFS Northern Region (Region 1), 1932-1967 MPS
- Census division. Hamilton
- National Register reference number. 100002297 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
176 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 176 fires within 5 miles of Gird Point Lookout between 1992 and 2020, burning about 16,672 acres in total. 138 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 | 138 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 21 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2009 | Natural | 2,514 acres | Bitterroot National Forest | GIRD END |
| 7 September 1999 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Bitterroot National Forest | HOG TROUGH #2 |
| 7 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Bitterroot National Forest | ST. GIRD |
| 6 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | 5.5 acres | Bitterroot National Forest | BRENNAN |
| 5 September 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Bitterroot National Forest | WEST GIRD |
| 5 September 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Bitterroot National Forest | SOUTH GIRD |
| 4 September 2010 | Natural | 10 acres | Bitterroot National Forest | HAROLD |
| 3 September 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Bitterroot National Forest | GIRD |
Mines and quarries near this property
8 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Gird Point Lookout: 6 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Vermiculite, Molybdenum, Quartz, Tungsten. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eagle Rock Mining Co. | Quartz | Producer | ||
| Pine Tree | Tungsten | Occurrence | ||
| Molly 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 Mine | Molybdenum | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Location | Molybdenum | Occurrence | ||
| Gird's Creek Vermiculite | Vermiculite | Occurrence | ||
| Hamilton Vermiculite Deposit | Vermiculite | Occurrence | 1930 | |
| Unnamed Location | Vermiculite | Occurrence | ||
| Vermiculite | Vermiculite | Occurrence |
Storms near this property
21 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hamilton, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1993 and 2019: 9 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 1 flash flood. 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 2018 | Hail | Hamilton | $20,000 | This storm produced enough hail to cover the ground several inches in the Hamilton area. There were multiple reports of one inch hail. A lady reported that she would have to replace her roof due to the hail damage. She remarked that she knew of several others who had to get their roofs repaired. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hamilton | $12,000 | Ravalli County dispatch received several reports of downed trees due to thunderstorm winds in the Bitterroot Valley from Florence to Hamilton. |
| November 2008 | Flash Flood | Hamilton | $5,800 | Ravalli County Road Department reported wash-outs on West Side Rd. (SW of Hamilton), West Hills Way (NW of Hamilton), and Camas Creek Loop (SW of Hamilton). |
| May 1993 | Hail | Hamilton | $5,000 | Lightning struck a house and set it on fire. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hamilton | $3,000 | The Ravalli County emergency manager reported that multiple power lines were down around Hamilton. |
| July 2019 | Hail | Hamilton | - | Quarter to ping-pong-sized hail was reported in Hamilton. Quarter-sized hail was also reported in Corvallis. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Hamilton | - | Hailstones reported varied from marble up to ping pong size during the storm. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Hamilton | - | A member of the public reported of 1.75 inch hail in Hamilton. |
| October 2011 | Heavy Rain | Hamilton | - | Two spotters in Hamilton reported heavy rainfall, one received 0.76 and the other 0.85 inches in 12 hours. |
| April 2006 | Heavy Rain | Hamilton | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hamilton | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hamilton | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hamilton | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Hamilton | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Hamilton | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Hamilton | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hamilton | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Hamilton | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hamilton | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hamilton | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hamilton | - | no account filed |
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 100002297 in Record Group 79. |
| Ravalli County | All 92 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.