BlockFrom the record
One of 19 National Register listings published here for Mineral County · listed in 2022 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Swanson Homestead
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022.
The listing
- Address. Approx.12 miles south of Superior, Superior, 59872
- When was it listed? November 2022
- Category. district
- Census division. Superior
- National Register reference number. 100008425 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
167 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 167 fires within 5 miles of Swanson Homestead between 1992 and 2020, burning about 26,650 acres in total. 85 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 | 85 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 23 |
| Debris and open burning | 15 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 10 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Lolo National Forest | MCMULLAN PEAK |
| 8 September 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Lolo National Forest | COLEMANS CORNER |
| 6 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southwestern Land Office | not named |
| 6 September 2001 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Lolo National Forest | RIVULET EDDY |
| 3 September 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Lolo National Forest | FISH CAMP |
| 2 September 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Lolo National Forest | TARKIO |
| 2 September 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Lolo National Forest | SUNRISE CR |
| 19 September 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Lolo National Forest | DUMP FIRE |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 22 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Swanson Homestead: 11 past producers, 4 unknowns, 4 occurrences, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silica. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| M & C Claims | Silica | Producer | ||
| Quartz Creek Silica Rock Deposit | Silica | Past Producer | Quartz | |
| Big Nugget Placer | Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Boulder Gold Placer | Gold | Unknown | ||
| Gildersleeve Placer | Gold | Past Producer | ||
| High Channel Placer | Gold | Occurrence | Placer | |
| Highbar Placer | Gold | Occurrence | Placer | |
| Highbar Placer | Gold | Unknown | ||
| Meadow Creek Placer | Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Meadow Creek Placer | Gold | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
12 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Superior, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1997 and 2015: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flood, 1 wildfire. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2015 | Hail | Superior | - | A trained spotter reported penny-sized hail in Superior, with 0.50 inches of rain falling in 30 min. Winds estimated at 40 to 50 mph accompanied this report. |
| August 2014 | Flash Flood | Superior | - | Debris flows were reported in Club Gulch in Flat Creek, Pardee Creek and at Shaw Gulch with moderate road damage. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Superior | - | Thunderstorm winds were reported to have blown down several trees and large limbs down along Quartz-Lozeau road. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Superior | - | Severe Thunderstorm downdraft winds blew several large trees down 5 miles west of Superior. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Superior | - | Two trees blew over onto a house. |
| July 1998 | Hail | Superior | - | Hail to 1.75 inches in diameter fell in a thunderstorm |
| June 2006 | Hail | Superior | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Superior | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Wildfire | Superior | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Flood | Superior | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Hail | Superior | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Superior | - | no account filed |
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 100008425 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.
- 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.