Dean School

Built in 1915. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.

From the record

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Stillwater County · listed in 2019 · category: Building · built in 1915.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. 1367 Nye Rd., Dean, 59028
When was it listed? December 2019
Category. building
Census division. Absarokee
When was it built? 1915
National Register reference number. 100004713 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Dean School between 1996 and 2020, burning about 43 acres in total. 7 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	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Smoking	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 August 2020	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	LITTLE ROCK
6 August 2020	Natural	under an acre	Stillwater County	BENBOW
31 August 2009	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	HEART LAKE
21 August 2010	Smoking	1.5 acres	Custer Gallatin National Forest	NYE ASSIST
17 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	BENBOW
17 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	BMCR
16 August 1996	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	FIDDLER CREEK
16 August 1996	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	EAST FIDDLER CREEK

Every fire recorded in Stillwater County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Dean School: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper. 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
	Fishtail Creek Mine	Copper	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Stillwater County

Storms near this property

3 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dean, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2020: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2020	Hail	Dean	-	no account filed
July 2019	Hail	Dean	-	no account filed
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Dean	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stillwater 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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	4K Ranch	1.7 miles	2002
	Torgrimson Place	6.9 miles	2001

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100004713 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Stillwater County	All 16 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.