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One of 82 National Register listings published here for Lewis and Clark County · listed in 2020 · category: Site.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Silver City Cemetery
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Approximately 12 miles north-northwest of Helena, MT, Silver City, 59602
- When was it listed? April 2020
- Category. site
- Census division. Lincoln
- National Register reference number. 100005209 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
57 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Silver City Cemetery between 1992 and 2020, burning about 69 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 1 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 | 24 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Central Land Office | not named |
| 23 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Central Land Office | DRUMLUMMON |
| 14 September 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Central Land Office | SMOKING GUNN |
| 10 September 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Central Land Office | TURK |
| 9 August 2016 | Natural | under an acre | Central Land Office | SILVER CR. |
| 7 August 2002 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Central Land Office | not named |
| 5 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Lewis & Clark County | 279 MM8 |
| 27 August 1996 | Natural | 10 acres | Central Land Office | RAVEN |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 16 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Silver City Cemetery: 8 past producers, 4 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Iron, Antimony, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baldy Smith Mine | Silver, Lead, Gold, Arsenic | Occurrence | Corkite, Gold | |
| Blue Jay Mine | Lead, Copper, Silver, Iron, Antimony | Past Producer | 1900 | |
| Blue Jay Mine | Iron, Silver, Copper, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Clay Deposit Near Silver Creek | Clay | Occurrence | Chlorite, Quartz | |
| Clay Deposit Northwest of Scratchgravel Hills | Brick Clay | Occurrence | Shale | |
| Drumlummon Mine | Silver, Gold, Manganese, Copper, Antimony | Past Producer | 1876 | |
| Prentice Property | Tungsten | Occurrence | ||
| Unknown Lease | Zinc, Lead | Unknown | ||
| Adeline Mine | Lead | Prospect | ||
| Golden Flag | Gold, Silver | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
10 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Silver City, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 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 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Silver City | - | Trained spotter reports a 62 mph gust. |
| August 2024 | Hail | Silver City | - | Trained spotter reports hail of 1.5 inches in diameter. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Silver City | - | Hail, mostly pea sized with a few of 1.00 inches (quarter sized), was reported. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Silver City | - | A severe thunderstorm dropped .88 inch diameter hail at Silver City 1E. |
| July 2002 | Hail | Silver City | - | A severe thunderstorm produced 0.75 inch hail and wind gusts to 60 mph at Silver City 2W. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Silver City | - | A severe thunderstorm produced wind gusts between 60 and 65 mph at Silver City. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Silver City | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Silver City | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Silver City | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Silver City | - | 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.
Listed places nearby
2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gehring Ranch | 2.0 miles | 2017 | |
| Methodist-Episcopal Church of Marysville | 5.8 miles | 1984 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100005209 in Record Group 79. |
| Lewis and Clark County | All 82 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.