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One of 24 National Register listings published here for Silver Bow County · listed in 2023 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Basin Creek Park Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.
The listing
- Address. Approximately 9 miles south of Butte on Basin Creek Rd. (393), Butte, 59701
- When was it listed? November 2023
- Category. district
- Census division. Butte
- National Register reference number. 100009566 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
75 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Basin Creek Park Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 50 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 39 |
| Natural | 17 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | HERMAN GULCH |
| 2 September 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | HIGHLAND |
| 2 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | DOG POND |
| 2 September 1994 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | not named |
| 6 August 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | EAGLES NEST |
| 6 August 2004 | Natural | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | LIME KILN |
| 5 August 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | LIMEKILN 2 |
| 5 August 1994 | Natural | 2.5 acres | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 35 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of Basin Creek Park Historic District: 14 past producers, 12 occurrences, 6 prospects, 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Molybdenum, Gold, Silver, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Butte Highlands Mine | Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | 1866, 1867 | |
| Cooley Cooly Gulch Placer | Silver, Gold | Past Producer | 1983 | |
| Elkhorn-Buckhorn | Silica, Gold, Silver | Prospect | ||
| Elkhorn-Buckhorn Claims | Silver, Lead, Zinc | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Fish Creek Mine | Gold, Silver, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Highland View Claim | Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Talc-Soapstone | Past Producer | 1931 | |
| Janney Pegmatites | REE | Occurrence | ||
| Pohndorf Deposit | Semiprecious Gemstone | Unknown | ||
| Sun Lode | Fullers Earth | Prospect | 1920 | |
| Climax | Silver, Gold | Occurrence |
Storms near this property
31 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Butte, the town this property stands in, in 31 storm reports between 1994 and 2019: 16 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 heavy rain, 2 flash flood. 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 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Butte | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Butte | $5,000 | A tree fell on a house bringing damage to a power box. Another large tree fell and downed multiple power poles. The power outage affected 5000 homes. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Butte | $500 | A newspaper in Butte reported that the top of an approximately 40 foot Ponderosa Pine tree fell over onto Park Street near the Montana Tech hill. Looking at the photo, the tree apparently fell towards the east direction. |
| August 2019 | Hail | Butte | - | The spotter measured one inch hail in Butte. |
| August 2014 | Hail | Butte | - | A trained spotter reported 1 size hail south of Butte. |
| July 2014 | Hail | Butte | - | A trained spotter estimated that 1 hail fell during the thunderstorm. |
| July 2011 | Hail | Butte | - | A trained spotter reported quarter sized hail. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Butte | - | Large trees fell across roadways and power lines were knocked down in portions of Butte. A few small grass fires were reported from the downed power lines. |
| August 2009 | Heavy Rain | Butte | - | Seven thenths of an inch of rain fell in 24 minutes at Bert Mooney Airport. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Butte | - | The Elk Park Department of Transportation weather station measured a thunderstorm wind gust up to 69 mph. |
| August 2009 | Heavy Rain | Butte | - | The Public Works Department reported .75 inch hail and estimated one inch of rain in about 30 minutes in Butte. Water was flowing down the streets. |
| August 2008 | Hail | Butte | - | A trained spotter reported 0.5 to 0.75 inch hail. |
| August 2008 | Hail | Butte | - | Police Officer reported to Silver Bow County Dispatch penny sized hail in downtown Butte. |
| May 2007 | Hail | Butte | - | A member of the public phoned in a report of nickel-sized hail. The storm developed on the southeast side of Butte and tracked northeast along the Continental Divide. |
| July 1998 | Flash Flood | Butte | - | Torrents of rain and hail fell on Butte in an hour-long thunderstorm which dumped over 2 inches of rain and hail over most of urban Butte. Blacktail Creek was over its banks in many areas. Silver Bow Creek, which normally has little or no water in the summer, was running like a river. Montana and Harrison Ave. streets were flooded and impassable during the peak of the storm. Debris from the hill washed down large rocks and boulders, which covered many of the streets in the up-town area. Underground power lines were washed out with residents without power for two to three days. Many private homes suffered flooded basements, yards and garages. Two trailer parks, located at the bottom of hills, suffered major damage. Centerville Volunteer Fire Dept. had major water damage. |
| August 2009 | Hail | Butte | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Butte | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Butte | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Heavy Rain | Butte | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Butte | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Butte | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Butte | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Butte | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Funnel Cloud | Butte | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Butte | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Butte | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Butte | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Flash Flood | Butte | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Hail | Butte | - | no account filed |
| September 1995 | Hail | Butte | - | no account filed |
| August 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Butte | - | 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.
Listed places nearby
3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Castle Rock Lodge | 3.0 miles | 2025 | |
| Harding Way Historic District | 5.1 miles | 2024 | |
| Harding Way Historic District | 5.8 miles | 2024 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100009566 in Record Group 79. |
| Silver Bow County | All 24 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.