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One of 24 National Register listings published here for Silver Bow County · listed in 2019 · category: Structure.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Silver Bow Airway Beacon
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 sitess, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Approximately 3 miles northwest of Ramsay, MT, Ramsay, 59748
- When was it listed? May 2019
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Sentinels of the Airways: Montana's Airway Beacon System, 1934-1979 MPS
- Census division. Butte-Silver Bow Northwest
- National Register reference number. 100004023 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
11 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Silver Bow Airway Beacon between 2000 and 2008, burning about 21 acres 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 |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2007 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Southwestern Land Office | not named |
| 15 September 2000 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Southwestern Land Office | not named |
| 15 September 2000 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.0 acres | Southwestern Land Office | not named |
| 29 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Southwestern Land Office | not named |
| 14 August 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.8 acres | Southwestern Land Office | not named |
| 11 August 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Southwestern Land Office | not named |
| 10 August 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southwestern Land Office | not named |
| 9 July 2007 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.0 acres | Southwestern Land Office | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 25 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Silver Bow Airway Beacon: 7 occurrences, 6 unknowns, 5 producers, 5 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite, Clay. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clay Deposit Near Miles Crossing | Aggregate, Light Weight | Occurrence | Unconsolidated Sediments | |
| Clay Deposit Near the Tuxedo Mine | Brick Clay | Occurrence | Unconsolidated Sediments | |
| Crackerville Sand and Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Fluorite Mine | Fluorine-Fluorite, Gold, Silver | Producer | Fluorite | |
| Gavin Placer | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Producer | ||
| Gregson Hot Springs | Geothermal | Producer | ||
| Perry Deposit | Bentonite | Occurrence | Bentonite | |
| Silver Bow Deposits | Fluorine-Fluorite, Gold, Silver, Barium-Barite | Past Producer | 1944 | |
| Silver Bow Placer | REE | Unknown | ||
| Silver Bow Plant | Phosphorus-Phosphates | Producer |
Storms near this property
2 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ramsay, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2019: 2 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2019 | Hail | Ramsay | - | One spotter measured quarter-sized hail while another estimated the largest hailstones to be up to tennis ball size. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Ramsay | - | Trained spotter 5 miles west of Butte reported 1.25 inch hail. |
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
4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ramsay Historic District | 3.4 miles | 1988 | |
 | Silver Bow Brewery Malt House | 4.6 miles | 1983 |
 | Butte, Anaconda and Pacific Railway Historic District (Boundary Increase) | 4.6 miles | 1989 |
 | Orphan Girl, Mineyard Headframe | 7.6 miles | 1966 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100004023 in Record Group 79. |
| Silver Bow County | All 24 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.