Garnet Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

From the record

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Granite County · listed in 2010 · category: District.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 11 mi N of jct US 90 and Bear Gulch Rd, Bureau of Land Management, Garnet Resource Area, Garnet, 59832
When was it listed? August 2010
Category. district
Census division. Drummond
National Register reference number. 10000547 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

102 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Garnet Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,057 acres in total. 73 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	73
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Recreation and ceremony	6
Debris and open burning	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
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
7 September 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Southwestern Land Office	DEEP CREEK
5 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Missoula Field Office	SOUTHERN CROSS SPRIN
26 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Southwestern Land Office	not named
26 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Butte Field Office	WASHOE CK.
25 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Southwestern Land Office	not named
17 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Missoula Field Office	ELEVATION MOUNTAIN
16 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Southwestern Land Office	not named
13 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Southwestern Land Office	DRY MULKEY

Every fire recorded in Granite County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 127 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 127 workings within 5 miles of Garnet Historic District: 68 past producers, 27 occurrences, 25 unknowns, 5 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Gold, Silver, Barium-Barite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Baker and Sullivan Mine	Silver, Lead, Copper	Producer	Galena
Big Horn Calcium Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Blue Moon Mine	Tungsten, Copper, Gold, Silver	Past Producer
Coloma District	Barium-Barite, Gold, Copper, Silver, Lead, Antimony	Past Producer	1897
Dandy Mine	Gold, Silver, Uranium, Zinc	Occurrence
Elk Creek Barite Mine	Barium-Barite, Lead, Zinc	Producer	1951
Elk Creek District	Gold, Barium-Barite	Past Producer	1886
Fairview Mine	Gold, Silver, Copper, Molybdenum, Tellurium, Barium-Barite, Bismuth	Past Producer	Bismuth, Chalcopyrite, Molybdenite, Silver, Tetrahedrite
Fairview Mine	Gold, Silver, Bismuth	Unknown
First Chance (Garnet) District	Gold, Tungsten	Producer	SKARN

Every working recorded in Granite County

Storms near this property

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garnet, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2021: 1 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
July 2021	Hail	Garnet	-	This particular thunderstorm developed off the outflow boundary from a previous severe storm affecting Missoula and Powell Counties. The FBAN on the Anderson Hill Fire reported large hail and heavy rain had fallen on the fire. In fact, he said sufficient hail had fallen to cover the ground white. The storm continued to Monture Ranger Station where a ranger reported 2 hail and damage to vehicle windscreens (unknown number of vehicles).

Every storm recorded in Granite 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 10000547 in Record Group 79.
Granite County	All 12 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.