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One of 19 National Register listings published here for Mineral County · listed in 2021 · category: Structure.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
St. Regis Airway Beacon
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. 2 mi. SE of St. Regis, St. Regis, 59866
- When was it listed? November 2021
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Sentinels of the Airways: Montana's Airway Beacon System, 1934-1979 MPS
- Census division. West End
- National Register reference number. 100007145 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
220 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 220 fires within 5 miles of St. Regis Airway Beacon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 277 acres in total. 109 started naturally. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 109 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 23 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 20 |
| Debris and open burning | 20 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 14 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| Fireworks | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Lolo National Forest | LOWER 7 MILE |
| 9 September 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Lolo National Forest | TAMARACK POWER LINE |
| 7 September 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Lolo National Forest | COLD RG. |
| 6 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Lolo National Forest | ST REGIS |
| 6 September 2011 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Lolo National Forest | SPRING GULCH |
| 4 September 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Lolo National Forest | FLAT TIRE |
| 4 September 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Lolo National Forest | POWERMILL |
| 3 September 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Lolo National Forest | SLOWAY |
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 St. Regis Airway Beacon: 5 unknowns, 5 past producers, 4 occurrences, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Lead, Gold, Gold, Copper. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buster & J. B. Claims | Quartz | Prospect | ||
| East Coeur D'Alene Silver | Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc | Unknown | ||
| Keith Prospect | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| Little Pittsburg | Copper, Lead, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Little Pittsburg Mine | Silver, Copper, Lead, Antimony, Gold | Past Producer | Chalcopyrite | |
| Little Pittsburg Mine | Lead, Silver, Gold, Copper, Antimony | Unknown | ||
| Nancy Lee Mill | Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Nancy Lee Mine | Zinc, Lead, Silver | Producer | Galena, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite | |
| Nancy Lee Mine | Lead, Silver, Copper, Zinc, Gold | Past Producer | Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite | |
| Nancy Lee Mine | Silver, Zinc, Lead, Gold | Past Producer |
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 100007145 in Record Group 79. |
| Mineral County | All 19 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.