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One of 22 National Register listings published here for Rosebud County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Shy Brothers Mercantile
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.
The listing
- Address. 104 Main Street, Ashland, 59003
- When was it listed? December 2025
- Category. building
- Census division. Ashland
- National Register reference number. 100012384 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
120 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of Shy Brothers Mercantile between 1992 and 2020, burning about 18,404 acres in total. 45 started naturally. 6 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 45 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 22 |
| Debris and open burning | 19 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 12 |
| Fireworks | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1994 | Natural | 1.8 acres | Northern Cheyenne Agency | BIG D |
| 5 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Northern Cheyenne Agency | RABBIT |
| 4 September 2010 | Natural | 2.8 acres | Custer Gallatin National Forest | COOK |
| 4 September 2005 | Natural | 15 acres | Miles City Field Office | BLOXHAM RANCH |
| 3 September 1994 | Natural | 10 acres | Miles City Field Office | ASDEN |
| 3 September 1993 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Northern Cheyenne Agency | GANDOLPH |
| 28 September 1992 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 44 acres | Northern Cheyenne Agency | TANGO |
| 25 September 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Northern Cheyenne Agency | RUSSIAN |
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 Shy Brothers Mercantile: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
55 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ashland, the town this property stands in, in 55 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 43 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 funnel cloud. 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 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashland | - | Several large trees were downed and half of a roof was taken off of a house trailer. |
| July 2019 | Hail | Ashland | - | Some vehicle damage was reported. |
| August 2013 | Hail | Ashland | - | Glass patio furniture was destroyed by the hail. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashland | - | A thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph was estimated just west of Ashland. |
| August 2013 | Flash Flood | Ashland | - | Very heavy rains from several thunderstorms during the late evening hours of the 1st into the early morning hours of the 2nd resulted in flash flooding across portions of the Ash Creek Burn Scar area around Highway 212 near mile marker 55. Rainfall was estimated to be around an inch in about a 30 min time period. In addition, a significant amount of small hail fell as well. Power outages also occurred as a result of the series of thunderstorms. Water around 4 inches deep flowed across the road bringing a significant amount of large pieces of burned wood, trash and silt. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashland | - | An estimated wind gust of 60 mph was reported 3 miles southeast of Ashland. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashland | - | 4 inch Ash tree branches broken. Severe wind gusts occurred for a period of 20 minutes. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashland | - | Gusty winds blew down several trees on the Pow Wow grounds with additional tree branches of 6 inches or larger in diameter broken. |
| July 2005 | Hail | Ashland | - | Gusty winds also reported with tree branches from 3-6 inches in diameter broken. |
| June 2001 | Hail | Ashland | - | Hail covered the ground. Several broken windows. |
| June 2001 | Hail | Ashland | - | Baseball size hail covered the ground on the north side of town. Multiple windows broken and some structural damage. A large thunderstorm moved over the town of Ashland, Montana at about 1 a.m. on the morning of June 30th. The storm reached a height more than 13 miles high or about 70 thousand feet. In addition to the baseball size hail...the storm produced winds up to 80 miles per hour. As a result...there were many smashed windows and windshields...as well as...trees stripped of branches, bark, and leaves. In addition...many birds were also knocked out of trees and killed. The St. Labre School in Ashland was damaged with many windows smashed. |
| June 2001 | Flash Flood | Ashland | - | Several roads washed out |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashland | - | Wind damage with 70 mph wind gust. |
| July 1998 | Heavy Rain | Ashland | - | A spotter reported one inch of rainfall in 28 minutes from a thunderstorm. |
| July 2019 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| April 2018 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| April 2018 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| April 2018 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| April 2018 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| September 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Funnel Cloud | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Funnel Cloud | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| May 1994 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100012384 in Record Group 79. |
| Rosebud County | All 22 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.