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One of 82 National Register listings published here for Lewis and Clark County · listed in 2025 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Wetzstein/Tipton Ranch
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.
The listing
- Address. 1968 Rimini Road, Rimini, 59601
- When was it listed? March 2025
- Category. district
- Census division. Helena
- National Register reference number. 100011547 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
117 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Wetzstein/Tipton Ranch between 1992 and 2020, burning about 320 acres in total. 32 started naturally. 5 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 | 32 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Helena - Lewis and Clark National Forest | DEER CR |
| 6 September 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Central Land Office | ROCKY PINE |
| 6 September 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Helena - Lewis and Clark National Forest | MINITENMILE |
| 3 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Central Land Office | PORCUPINE |
| 25 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 170 acres | Helena - Lewis and Clark National Forest | MACDONALD PASS |
| 24 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Helena - Lewis and Clark National Forest | PRIEST PASS |
| 23 September 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Central Land Office | MAC PASS |
| 20 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Central Land Office | HWY 12 WEST MM33 |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 37 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 37 workings within 5 miles of Wetzstein/Tipton Ranch: 18 past producers, 13 occurrences, 3 prospects, 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Uranium, Arsenic. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Armstrong Mine | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Blue Cloud | Tungsten, Molybdenum | Occurrence | Scheelite | |
| Blue Cloud | Tungsten, Molybdenum | Occurrence | ||
| Colorado Gulch Deposit | Magnesite | Occurrence | ||
| Colorado Gulch Deposits | Tungsten, Garnet | Occurrence | Garnet, Scheelite | |
| Colorado Gulch Dolomite Deposit | Dolomite | Occurrence | Dolomite | |
| Kain Mine | Gold, Silver, Copper, Arsenic, Antimony, Bismuth | Occurrence | Unknown | |
| Kain Mine | Gold, Arsenic, Silver, Antimony, Copper | Occurrence | ||
| Lee Mountain | Silver, Gold, Lead, Zinc, Arsenic, Antimony | Past Producer | 1864 | |
| Lee Mountain | Silver, Zinc, Gold, Lead | Past Producer | Underground |
Storms near this property
1 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rimini, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2011: 1 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 2011 | Flood | Rimini | - | Numerous road closures and flooding to homes in the East Helena and Rimini areas. Private access bridges damaged in the Rimini area. Highway 435 near Augusta had water flowing over the road. Homes inaccessible in the Blue Cloud area. Chessman and Scott Reservoirs inaccessible. Roads in the Wolf Creek area also closed due to flooding. On 6/7/11, a flood emergency was declared for Lewis and Clark 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
2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas P. Regan Cabin | 3.5 miles | 2003 | |
 | Wassweiler Hotel and Bath Houses | 7.5 miles | 1978 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100011547 in Record Group 79. |
| Lewis and Clark County | All 82 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.