Sage Creek Ranger Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.

From the record

One of 81 National Register listings published here for Carbon County · listed in 2020 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Custer Gallatin NF, Sage Creek Guard Station Rd. 2223, Pryor Mts., Bridger, 59014
When was it listed? August 2020
Category. building
Census division. East Carbon
National Register reference number. 100005456 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

29 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Sage Creek Ranger Station between 1993 and 2020, burning about 5,659 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Debris and open burning	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
4 September 1995	Natural	700 acres	Crow Agency	CROWNBUTTE
1 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	Billings Field Office	BIG PRYOR
8 August 2018	Natural	2.0 acres	Billings Field Office	BENT SPRING
5 August 1995	Natural	under an acre	Crow Agency	SUMMIT II
31 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Billings Field Office	SAGE CREEK
27 August 2011	Natural	1.0 acres	Billings Field Office	BOWLER FLATS
19 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	BIG PRIOR
15 August 2018	Natural	4.6 acres	Crow Agency	SOUTH SAGE CREEK FIRE

Every fire recorded in Carbon 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 Sage Creek Ranger Station: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Molybdenum, Vanadium. 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
	Uranium Prospect	Uranium, Molybdenum, Vanadium	Prospect

Every working recorded in Carbon County

Storms near this property

21 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bridger, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 12 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 1 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 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridger	-	Tree damage, 2 large trees uprooted, grain silo destroyed. Very localized damage suggestive of a microburst. Gust estimated via damage information provided.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridger	-	Multiple pine trees were downed.
July 2018	Hail	Bridger	-	Some tree damage was reported.
June 2008	Hail	Bridger	-	Some crop damage was reported.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridger	-	South Bridger RAWS
June 2006	Hail	Bridger	-	10 to 15 minutes of hail
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridger	-	Roofing material ripped off house
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridger	-	2 inch diameter tree branches down
May 2001	Hail	Bridger	-	.88 inch hail reported by spotters
May 2001	Hail	Bridger	-	1.00 inch hail reported by spotters
July 2001	Heavy Rain	Bridger	-	1.5 inches of rain in 35 minutes with 2 inches of water over main street
July 2001	Heavy Rain	Bridger	-	1-2 inches of rain in 30 minutes
April 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridger	-	A spotter reported a 60 mph wind gust with a thunderstorm.
July 2018	Hail	Bridger	-	no account filed
July 2018	Hail	Bridger	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Bridger	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Bridger	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Bridger	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Bridger	-	no account filed
February 1997	Flood	Bridger	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Bridger	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carbon 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100005456 in Record Group 79.
Carbon County	All 81 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.