James McCrossin Cabin

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.

From the record

One of 92 National Register listings published here for Ravalli County · listed in 2019 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. McCrossin, James, Cabin - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 1237 MT 93 S., Hamilton, 59840
When was it listed? December 2019
Category. building
Census division. Hamilton
National Register reference number. 100004710 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

57 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of James McCrossin Cabin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9,707 acres in total. 21 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	21
Recreation and ceremony	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Debris and open burning	6
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 2018	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Bitterroot National Forest	SAWTOOTH LANE MUTUAL AID
5 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Bitterroot National Forest	CAMAS 2
29 September 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Bitterroot National Forest	OLD CAMAS
25 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	750 acres	Bitterroot National Forest	WARD MTN
21 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Bitterroot National Forest	GOLD CREEK
20 September 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Bitterroot National Forest	CAMAS 3
17 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Bitterroot National Forest	HORSE
15 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Bitterroot National Forest	PARTY FIRE

Every fire recorded in Ravalli County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of James McCrossin Cabin: 3 unknowns, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Iron, Thorium, Zirconium, Quartz, Kaolin. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Bush Place	Kaolin	Unknown
Lucky Strike	Quartz	Prospect
Roaring Lion Creek	Titanium, Iron, Thorium, Zirconium	Unknown
Sawtooth Creek	Titanium, Iron, Thorium	Unknown
Unnamed Location	Clay	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Ravalli County

Storms near this property

21 since 1993

Regional 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

Every storm recorded in Ravalli 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.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Rocky Mountain Laboratory Historic District	4.7 miles	1988
John Stout House	4.7 miles	1988
Conway House	4.8 miles	1988
Pine Apartments	4.8 miles	1988
Charles Hoffman House	4.8 miles	1988
Gordon House	4.8 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100004710 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.