Fortin Ranch House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.

From the record

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Lincoln County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 191 Ant Flat Road, Trego, 59934
When was it listed? March 2025
Category. building
Census division. Eureka
National Register reference number. 100011583 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

122 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Fortin Ranch House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,176 acres in total. 29 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
Debris and open burning	34
Natural	29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Recreation and ceremony	13
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Smoking	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Fireworks	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Other causes	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
4 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kootenai National Forest	SOUTH DICKEY
3 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Kootenai National Forest	STRYKER RIDGE
3 September 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Kootenai National Forest	LAUGHING
21 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Kootenai National Forest	KASANKA MILL
17 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Kootenai National Forest	LOON LAKE
17 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Kootenai National Forest	FIR RIDGE
12 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Kootenai National Forest	TENDER
9 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Kootenai National Forest	CASTLE ROCK

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this property

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Trego, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1997: 1 hail. 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
August 1997	Hail	Trego	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Ant Flat Ranger Station	1.2 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100011583 in Record Group 79.
Lincoln County	All 9 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.
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.