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One of 14 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 2018 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Jefferson Canyon Highway Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.
The listing
- Address. Milepost .5 to 12.3 MT 2, Cardwell, 59721
- When was it listed? July 2018
- Category. district
- Census division. Whitehall
- National Register reference number. 100002692 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
13 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Jefferson Canyon Highway Historic District between 1998 and 2020, burning about 3,643 acres in total. 4 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 | 5 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 176 acres | Central Land Office | MILLIGAN CANYON MA |
| 29 September 2020 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1,962 acres | Madison County | ANTELOPE |
| 29 August 1998 | Natural | 120 acres | Central Land Office | GREER GULCH |
| 29 August 1998 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | LAHOOD |
| 28 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Jefferson County | NFIRS INCIDENT #612 |
| 22 August 1998 | Smoking | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | CAVERNS |
| 19 August 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | SNAKE |
| 17 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 200 acres | Jefferson County | 202067 |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 19 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Jefferson Canyon Highway Historic District: 11 past producers, 3 occurrences, 2 prospects, 2 unknowns. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Clay, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cardwell Clay Pit | Kaolin | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Hope | Copper, Gold, Silver | Occurrence | ||
| Limespur Quarry | Limestone, High Calcium | Past Producer | 1875 | |
| Prospector's Dream | Asbestos | Prospect | ||
| Surprise Mine | Gold, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Butte Cardwell | Copper, Silver, Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Cardwell Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Hope Mine | Silver, Gold, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Jefferson Canyon Phosphoria | Phosphorus-Phosphates | Prospect | ||
| Limespur Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
7 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cardwell, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 5 hail, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2023 | Flash Flood | Cardwell | $100,000 | Jefferson County Sheriff's Office reported Milligan Canyon Road was washed out in several locations due to heavy rainfall. |
| July 1998 | Flash Flood | Cardwell | $100,000 | MILLIGAN CANYON AREA |
| August 2019 | Hail | Cardwell | - | A trained spotter reports hail of 1.5 inches in diameter. |
| July 2019 | Hail | Cardwell | - | Trained spotter reports quarter sized hail falling and covering the ground near Cardwell. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Cardwell | - | Spotter reported quarter-size hail 2-miles ESE of Cardwell as a supercell moved overhead. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Cardwell | - | Spotter reported quarter-size hail 5-miles ESE of Cardwell as a second supercell moved overhead. |
| August 2009 | Hail | Cardwell | - | A severe thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Cardwell 14N. |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Lewis and Clark Caverns Historic District | 1.0 miles | 2018 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100002692 in Record Group 79. |
| Jefferson County | All 14 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.