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One of 35 National Register listings published here for Park County · listed in 2025 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Herbert Summer Cabin
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 5 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. West Boulder tract, Big Timber, 59052
- When was it listed? August 2025
- Category. district
- Census division. Livingston
- National Register reference number. 100012056 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
12 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Herbert Summer Cabin between 1997 and 2018, burning about 14 acres in total. 9 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 | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Custer Gallatin National Forest | DAVIS |
| 2 September 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Custer Gallatin National Forest | DAVIS CREEK |
| 8 August 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Custer Gallatin National Forest | FROZE |
| 16 August 2005 | Natural | 12 acres | Custer Gallatin National Forest | HOOLAHAN |
| 1 August 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Custer Gallatin National Forest | NATURAL BRIDGE |
| 29 July 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Custer Gallatin National Forest | BAKER DRAW |
| 28 July 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Custer Gallatin National Forest | LION |
| 25 July 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Custer Gallatin National Forest | LION MOUNTAIN |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Herbert Summer Cabin: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lake View | Gold | Prospect |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Main Boulder Ranger Station | 4.6 miles | 2024 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100012056 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.