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One of 8 National Register listings published here for Blaine County · listed in 2020 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
St. Paul's Mission Church
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 1 Mission Dr., Hays, 59527
- When was it listed? July 2020
- Category. building
- Census division. Fort Belknap
- National Register reference number. 100005403 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
247 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 247 fires within 5 miles of St. Paul's Mission Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,249 acres in total. 32 started naturally. 8 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 65 |
| Fireworks | 33 |
| Smoking | 32 |
| Natural | 32 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 26 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 23 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Other causes | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Fort Belknap Agency | PINE GROVE |
| 9 September 1994 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fort Belknap Agency | PLAYGROUND |
| 6 September 1999 | Smoking | under an acre | Fort Belknap Agency | 3-BULL |
| 3 September 2005 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 2.0 acres | Fort Belknap Agency | ESSERT |
| 3 September 2000 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Fort Belknap Agency | BLAIR |
| 3 September 1994 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fort Belknap Agency | PINE GROVE |
| 29 September 2004 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Fort Belknap Agency | HAYS DUMPS |
| 29 September 1994 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fort Belknap Agency | JUDY |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 11 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of St. Paul's Mission Church: 6 past producers, 3 unknowns, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August Mine | Gold, Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite | Past Producer | 1893 | |
| Gold Bug Mine | Gold, Silver, Copper, Zinc | Past Producer | 1893, 1894 | |
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Jack Deuce | Silver, Gold, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Surprise Mine | Gold, Silver, Tellurium | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Molybdenum | Molybdenum | Occurrence | ||
| August Mine | Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Little Ben | Gold | Unknown | ||
| Lodgepole Creek | Gold | Unknown |
Storms near this property
16 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hays, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 13 hail, 1 wildfire, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2022 | Hail | Hays | - | Pictures relayed via social media of very large hail near Hays. Time of event from radar. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Hays | - | Reported half inch to golfball sized hail. mostly just heavy rainfall right now and calm winds. |
| July 2021 | Hail | Hays | - | A member of the public relayed a report of half dollar sized hail through social media. |
| July 2021 | Hail | Hays | - | A member of the public relayed images of golf ball sized hail through social media. |
| July 2021 | Tornado (EFU) | Hays | - | A supercell moved southeast across Blaine County early Tuesday|evening. This storm produced large hail of nearly two inches in|diameter along its path. As the severe storm approached Hays,|rotation strengthened slightly to where a brief tornado occurred.|The tornado occurred over open ranchland to the west of Montana|Highway 66 and, to our knowledge, no damage occurred. The|supercell then started to weaken as it move southeast between Hays|and Lodge Pole with the tornado likely lifting before it reached|Highway 66. |
| June 2021 | Hail | Hays | - | Quarter sized hail reported during the second storm to pass over Hays, MT. |
| June 2021 | Hail | Hays | - | Quarter to ping pong ball sized hail reported in Hays, MT with the third system that tracked through the area. In addition, gusty winds shook the truck the truck. Gusts were estimated to be around 50 MPH. |
| June 2021 | Hail | Hays | - | Public report from Hays, MT of ping pong to tennis ball sized hail when the first system moved through. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hays | - | A thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 70 mph and hail 2 inches in diameter at Hays 13NNW. |
| July 2007 | Hail | Hays | - | A severe thunderstorm dropped .88 inch diameter hail at Hays 8N. The hail lasted about 30 minutes and covered the ground to a depth of 1 inch. |
| July 2007 | Hail | Hays | - | A severe thunderstorm dropped 1.5 inch diameter hail at Hays 6N. The hail lasted about 15 minutes and covered the ground to a depth of 2 inches in some places. |
| July 2000 | Wildfire | Hays | - | Ivan fire, 500 acres burned, human caused. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Hays | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Hays | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Hays | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Hays | - | 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
1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lodgepole Community Hall | 7.6 miles | 2000 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100005403 in Record Group 79. |
| Blaine County | All 8 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.