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One of 14 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 2019 · category: Structure.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Homestake Airway Beacon
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 structuress as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. Along Continental Divide at Homestake Pass; Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, Butte, 59759
- 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. Whitehall
- National Register reference number. 100004037 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
172 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 172 fires within 5 miles of Homestake Airway Beacon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 72 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 4 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 111 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 |
| Natural | 16 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Fireworks | 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 1996 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | LITTLE WILLIE |
| 5 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | HOMESTAKE 3 |
| 5 September 2005 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | HOMESTAKE |
| 29 September 2004 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | POWER |
| 28 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | LITTLE BLACKTAIL |
| 2 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | DOG POND |
| 2 September 1994 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | not named |
| 17 September 1992 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 48 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 48 workings within 5 miles of Homestake Airway Beacon: 20 past producers, 15 occurrences, 6 prospects, 5 unknowns. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Molybdenum, Gold, Silver, Silver. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flagg Placer | Silica, Gold, REE, Zinc | Past Producer | Placer | |
| Gold Bug Mine | Silver, Gold, Copper | Past Producer | 1911 | |
| Irene | Gold, Copper, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Lena Mine | Gold, Lead | Unknown | ||
| Mountain Cheif Mine | Silver, Copper, Gold | Past Producer | Vein | |
| Pay Rock Mine | Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper | Past Producer | 1932 | |
| Pay Rock Mine | Silver, Gold, Copper | Unknown | ||
| Shorty | Gold, Silver, Copper | Producer | ||
| Shorty | Copper, Gold, Silver | Unknown | ||
| Sun Lode | Fullers Earth | Prospect | 1920 |
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 100004037 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.