BlockFrom the record
One of 35 National Register listings published here for Park County · listed in 2024 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Main Boulder Ranger Station
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.
The listing
- Address. 2815 Main Boulder Rd, McLeod, 59052
- When was it listed? July 2024
- Category. district
- Census division. Livingston
- National Register reference number. 100010504 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
25 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Main Boulder Ranger Station between 1994 and 2020, burning about 22 acres in total. 12 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 | 12 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 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 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Custer Gallatin National Forest | GREEN |
| 21 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Custer Gallatin National Forest | FULLER- |
| 10 September 1994 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Custer Gallatin National Forest | not named |
| 8 August 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Custer Gallatin National Forest | FROZE |
| 20 August 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Custer Gallatin National Forest | FIR |
| 18 August 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Custer Gallatin National Forest | GREAT FALLS |
| 17 August 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Custer Gallatin National Forest | WHISPER |
| 16 August 2005 | Natural | 12 acres | Custer Gallatin National Forest | HOOLAHAN |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 36 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 36 workings within 5 miles of Main Boulder Ranger Station: 22 prospects, 10 occurrences, 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Chromium, Gold, Platinum, Palladium, Rhodium, Nickel. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anderson's Springs | Geothermal | Producer | ||
| Boulder River Ni-Cu Riverside | Nickel, Copper, Cobalt, PGE, Gold, Silver | Occurrence | Chalcopyrite, Pentlandite, Pyrrhotite | |
| Boulder River Nickel Prospect | Nickel, Cobalt, Copper, Gold, Silver | Prospect | ||
| Eve Group Moonlight Group | Silver | Prospect | ||
| Majestic & Flora B Claims | Palladium, Platinum, Copper, Nickel | Occurrence | ||
| Majestic and Flora B Claims | Platinum, Nickel | Prospect | ||
| Nicon | Copper, Nickel, Cobalt, Gold, Silver, PGE | Occurrence | Chalcopyrite, Pentlandite, Pyrrhotite | |
| Standrad Drago Mine | Gold, Silver, Nickel, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Eve Group | Copper, Nickel | Prospect | ||
| Gish Mine | Chromium, Nickel, Copper | Past Producer | 1918 |
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
1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Herbert Summer Cabin | 4.6 miles | 2025 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100010504 in Record Group 79. |
| Park County | All 35 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.