Poker Jim Butte Fire Lookout

Built in 1955. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022.

From the record

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Rosebud County · listed in 2022 · category: Building · built in 1955.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. FS Rd. 4801, Custer Gallatin National Forest, 59012
When was it listed? September 2022
Category. building
Census division. Ashland
When was it built? 1955
National Register reference number. 100008167 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

128 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of Poker Jim Butte Fire Lookout between 1993 and 2020, burning about 3,968 acres in total. 124 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	124
Debris and open burning	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
6 September 2013	Natural	7.3 acres	Miles City Field Office	MORRIS
6 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	PASTURE
5 September 1995	Natural	30 acres	Custer Gallatin National Forest	PARRISH
27 September 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Northern Cheyenne Agency	MEDICINE
2 September 2016	Natural	1,330 acres	Miles City Field Office	GRIFFIN GULCH
2 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	Miles City Field Office	TIMBER CREEK
2 September 2016	Natural	3.4 acres	Miles City Field Office	POND
19 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	3X BAR

Every fire recorded in Rosebud County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Poker Jim Butte Fire Lookout: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
	Gravel Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
	Scoria Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Rosebud 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.

Listed places nearby

1 within 8 miles

Other 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
	Bones Brothers Ranch	6.5 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100008167 in Record Group 79.
Rosebud County	All 22 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.