Ruffatto School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.

From the record

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Richland County · listed in 2023 · category: Building.

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. 31600 Road 154, Brockton, 59213
When was it listed? November 2023
Category. building
Census division. Fairview
National Register reference number. 100009561 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

145 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 145 fires within 5 miles of Ruffatto School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,012 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 15 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	33
Equipment and vehicle use	19
Railroad operations and maintenance	16
Arson/incendiarism	15
Misuse of fire by a minor	15
Debris and open burning	13
Smoking	13
Natural	7
Fireworks	6
Recreation and ceremony	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
30 September 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.2 acres	Fort Peck Agency	CIRCLE DR
3 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9.0 acres	Northeastern Land Office	not named
3 September 2017	Railroad operations and maintenance	36 acres	Fort Peck Agency	WHEAT
29 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.2 acres	Fort Peck Agency	9.5INDHWY
29 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fort Peck Agency	12.5INDHWY
29 September 1994	Railroad operations and maintenance	23 acres	Fort Peck Agency	BENDER
25 September 2014	Power generation/transmission/distribution	6.5 acres	Fort Peck Agency	POLES LINES
24 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Fort Peck Agency	BROCKTON 4

Every fire recorded in Richland County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Ruffatto School: 9 unknowns, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Bentonite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unnamed Bentonite	Bentonite	Occurrence
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Richland 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100009561 in Record Group 79.
Richland County	All 3 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.