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One of 14 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 2020 · category: Structure.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Whitetail Airway Beacon
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 16 miles north of Whitehall, Whitehall, 59632
- When was it listed? March 2020
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Sentinels of the Airways: Montana's Airway Beacon System, 1934-1979 MPS
- Census division. Whitehall
- National Register reference number. 100005094 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
19 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Whitetail Airway Beacon between 1994 and 2020, burning about 4,418 acres in total. 16 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 | 16 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | STATE CREEK |
| 9 August 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | LITTLE WHITETAIL |
| 9 August 2000 | Natural | 9.0 acres | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | STATE CK |
| 7 August 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | POTTER |
| 29 August 2020 | Natural | 4,400 acres | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | STATE CREEK |
| 29 August 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | BEAVER PLACE |
| 20 August 2020 | Natural | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | PARK |
| 20 August 2000 | Natural | 7.0 acres | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | WAGTAIL |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 27 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Whitetail Airway Beacon: 13 past producers, 7 occurrences, 6 unknowns, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Gold, Silver, Lead, Uranium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Foot (State Creek) District | Silver, Lead, Zinc, Gold, Copper | Past Producer | REPLACEMENT VEINS, PLACER | |
| Boulder Mercury Group | Lead, Mercury, Uranium, Silver, Gold | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Last Chance | Gold, Silver, Copper | Unknown | ||
| Lost Cabin Mine | Lead, Copper, Gold, Silver | Unknown | ||
| Mountain Queen Mine | Silver, Lead, Gold, Copper, Zinc, Uranium | Past Producer | 1939, 1956 | |
| Mountain Queen Mine | Copper, Uranium, Silver, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| North Whitetail Basin Granite Quarry | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| State Mine | Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead | Past Producer | Replacement Vein | |
| State Mine | Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Twohy Property | Lead, Zinc | Prospect |
Storms near this property
14 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Whitehall, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1994 and 2019: 10 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whitehall | $50,000 | Roof of home damaged by wind. |
| August 2019 | Hail | Whitehall | - | A trained spotter reports sized 1.5 inches in diameter about 5 miles NNW of Whitehall. |
| August 2019 | Hail | Whitehall | - | A trained spotter reports hail size of 1.5 inches in diameter. |
| July 2019 | Hail | Whitehall | - | Trained spotter reported 1.5 inch hail in Whitehall. |
| July 2018 | Hail | Whitehall | - | Spotter reported quarter-size hail in Whitehall. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Whitehall | - | Spotter reported quarter to half dollar-size hail. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whitehall | - | A thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 58 mph at Whitehall 7W (the Homestake Pass DOT site). Also, 1 inch diameter hail was reported at Boulder 8S. |
| July 2014 | Flash Flood | Whitehall | - | Flash flooding from thunderstorms was reported where Interstate 90 crosses Highway 69. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Whitehall | - | Hail of 0.88 inches (nickel sized) was reported. |
| September 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whitehall | - | Strong winds estimated 50KT (58MPH) causing vehicle rollover on Interstate 90, mobile home damage, and numerous reports of roof and power line damage. |
| July 2012 | Hail | Whitehall | - | Quarter sized hail, measuring 1.00 inches, was reported 2 miles W of Whitehall. |
| May 2007 | Hail | Whitehall | - | A severe thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Whitehall 12W. |
| August 2007 | Hail | Whitehall | - | A severe thunderstorm dropped .88 inch diameter hail at Whitehall 12W. |
| August 2004 | Hail | Whitehall | - | no account filed |
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 100005094 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.