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One of 25 National Register listings published here for Beaverhead County · listed in 2023 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Wise River Ranger Station
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.
The listing
- Address. Beaverhead-Deerlodge NF, Wise River Ranger District, Wise River, 59762
- When was it listed? August 2023
- Category. district
- Census division. Big Hole Basin
- National Register reference number. 100009207 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
20 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Wise River Ranger Station between 1994 and 2019, burning about 764 acres in total. 10 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 | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | ADSON |
| 9 August 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | CLINE FIRE |
| 28 August 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Butte Field Office | TITAN |
| 25 August 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | not named |
| 24 August 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Butte Field Office | JIMMIE NEW |
| 21 August 2012 | Natural | 375 acres | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | BYWAY |
| 9 July 2000 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | JERRY CREEK FIRE |
| 31 July 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 343 acres | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | ADSON |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 23 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Wise River Ranger Station: 12 past producers, 5 occurrences, 4 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Lead, Silver, Copper, Lead. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aurora Mine | Silver, Copper, Gold | Past Producer | Vein | |
| Aurora Mine | Gold, Copper, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Churchill Mine | Silver, Lead, Gold | Occurrence | Gold, Lead, Silver | |
| Churchill Mine | Lead, Gold, Silver, Zinc | Occurrence | ||
| Fraser Placer | Lead, Silver, Copper, Gold | Prospect | 1950 | |
| Fraser Placer | Silver, Copper, Lead, Molybdenum | Prospect | ||
| Harrison | Gold, Bismuth, Silver, Tellurium | Occurrence | ||
| Keystone Mine | Gold, Silver | Past Producer | Vein | |
| Lime Kiln Gulch Quarry | Limestone, General | Producer | Limestone | |
| Madison Mine | Copper, Gold | Past Producer | 1865 |
Storms near this property
12 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wise River, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wise River | - | RAWS station WRSM8 Wise River measured a 58 mph gust. Time estimated given RAWS only report once per hour. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wise River | - | Measured via WRSM8 near Wise River. |
| June 2020 | Heavy Rain | Wise River | - | Mesonet station Wise River raws wrsm8. |
| June 2020 | Heavy Rain | Wise River | - | Mesonet station Beaverhead Deerlodge no. 1, tr267. |
| September 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wise River | - | A 59 mph (51 kt) thunderstorm wind gust was reported at the Beaverhead Deerlodge mesonet station. |
| August 2009 | Hail | Wise River | - | A severe thunderstorm dropped 2.75 inch diameter hail at Wise River 3S. |
| August 2009 | Hail | Wise River | - | A severe thunderstorm dropped 1.75 inch diameter hail at Wise River. |
| August 2008 | Hail | Wise River | - | A severe thunderstorm dropped .88 inch diameter hail at Wise River. |
| August 2001 | Hail | Wise River | - | Actual spotter location Wise River 3 W...0.23 inches of rain also fell in less than 5 minutes. |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wise River | - | Thunderstorm winds damaged a barn roof and some windows at Wise River. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Wise River | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Wise River | - | 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 100009207 in Record Group 79. |
| Beaverhead County | All 25 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.