Harding Way Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.

From the record

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Silver Bow County · listed in 2024 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 structuress, 3 objectss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. MP 75.0 to Milepost 80.1, Butte, 59701
When was it listed? April 2024
Category. district
Census division. Butte
National Register reference number. 100010219 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

153 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 153 fires within 5 miles of Harding Way Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 46 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 3 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	92
Natural	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Power generation/transmission/distribution	8
Debris and open burning	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Fireworks	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
8 September 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	LITTLE WILLIE
5 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	HOMESTAKE 3
5 September 2005	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	HOMESTAKE
29 September 2004	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	POWER
28 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	LITTLE BLACKTAIL
27 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	HERMAN GULCH
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

Every fire recorded in Silver Bow County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 41 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 41 workings within 5 miles of Harding Way Historic District: 14 occurrences, 14 past producers, 6 prospects, 5 unknowns. 2 still produce. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Cr 1	Stone	Past Producer
Flagg Placer	Silica, Gold, REE, Zinc	Past Producer	Placer
Gold Bug Mine	Silver, Gold, Copper	Past Producer	1911
Mountain Cheif Mine	Silver, Copper, Gold	Past Producer	Vein
Pay Rock Mine	Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper	Past Producer	1932
Pay Rock Mine	Silver, Gold, Copper	Unknown
Pohndorf Deposit	Semiprecious Gemstone	Unknown
Shorty	Gold, Silver, Copper	Producer
Shorty	Copper, Gold, Silver	Unknown
Sun Lode	Fullers Earth	Prospect	1920

Every working recorded in Silver Bow County

Storms near this property

31 since 1994

Regional 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

Every storm recorded in Silver Bow 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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Hawthorne Grade School	4.9 miles	1988
Basin Creek Park Historic District	5.1 miles	2023
Castle Rock Lodge	5.5 miles	2025
Silver Bow County Poor Farm Hospital	5.6 miles	1981
Longfellow Grade School	5.7 miles	1988
Socialist Hall	6.5 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100010219 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.