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One of 14 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 2021 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Hall Bungalow
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 500 Lower Valley Rd., Boulder, 59632
- When was it listed? November 2021
- Category. building
- Census division. Boulder
- National Register reference number. 100007197 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
11 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Hall Bungalow between 1998 and 2020, burning about 75 acres in total. 5 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 | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 August 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | 7-UP |
| 30 August 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Central Land Office | RYAN MOUNTAIN |
| 25 August 2018 | Natural | 13 acres | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | DAWSON |
| 20 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Jefferson County | NFIRS INCIDENT #664 |
| 23 July 2020 | Natural | under an acre | Jefferson County | PRIMROSE FIRE |
| 26 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Jefferson County | NFIRS INCIDENT #661 |
| 19 June 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | DRY CREEK |
| 5 May 2001 | Recreation and ceremony | 6.0 acres | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | CABIN ONE |
Mines and quarries near this property
9 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Hall Bungalow: 6 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boulder Iron Mine | Gold, Iron, Silver | Past Producer | 1900 | |
| Passover | Lead, Zinc, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Phosphates | Phosphorus-Phosphates | Occurrence | ||
| Dora Leigh | Lead, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Mccauley Lead Mine | Lead, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Best Wish Placer | Gold | Prospect | 1931 | |
| Best Wish Placer | Gold | Unknown | ||
| Elkhorn Creek Placer | Gold | Past Producer | ||
| St. Joe Placer | Gold | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
7 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boulder, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 5 hail, 1 wildfire, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 2000 | Wildfire | Boulder | 2 hurt | High Ore/Boulder Hill fire, 12604 acres burned, cause unknown. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Boulder | - | Trainer spotter reported hail falling between dime and quarter size. |
| August 2019 | Hail | Boulder | - | A trained spotter reports hail up to 1.5 inches in diameter 5 miles NNW of Whitehall at 5:26 PM MST. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boulder | - | Mesonet station in Boulder reported 58-mph peak gust from thunderstorm. |
| June 2002 | Hail | Boulder | - | A severe thunderstorm produced 1.00 inch hail near Boulder. |
| August 2002 | Hail | Boulder | - | A severe thunderstorm produced 0.75 inch hail in Boulder. |
| August 2001 | Hail | Boulder | - | Dime sized hail reported by spotter in the town of Boulder. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Boulder Hot Springs Hotel | 6.8 miles | 1979 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100007197 in Record Group 79. |
| Jefferson County | All 14 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.