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One of 7 National Register listings published here for Golden Valley County · listed in 2025 · category: Structure.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Musselshell River Bridge
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. Two miles east of Ryegate on Buffalo Trail, Ryegate, 59074
- When was it listed? December 2025
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Montana's Historic Steel Truss Bridges
- Census division. Ryegate
- National Register reference number. 100012496 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
3 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Musselshell River Bridge between 2008 and 2017, burning about 3,659 acres in total. 1 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 | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Northeastern Land Office | not named |
| 30 August 2008 | Natural | 3,558 acres | Northeastern Land Office | GOLDEN VALLEY COMPLEX |
| 19 July 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | 100 acres | Northeastern Land Office | COLSON |
Storms near this property
51 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ryegate, the town this property stands in, in 51 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 42 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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 2025 | Hail | Ryegate | - | Time estimated by radar for hail. |
| June 2023 | Flash Flood | Ryegate | - | Flash flooding was reported in the town of Ryegate. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ryegate | - | A lot of marble size hail accompanied the winds. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ryegate | - | Microburst winds estimated at speeds upwards of 75 mph occurred in the vicinity of Ryegate. The microburst was a quarter mile wide and a mile long with the majority of the damage occurring in the town of Ryegate. Several structures were impacted with mostly minor roof damage. Numerous trees were impacted as large tree limbs were downed and several large pine trees uprooted. |
| June 2011 | Flash Flood | Ryegate | - | A thunderstorm producing between 5.00 and 5.5 inches of rain resulted in flash flooding and flooded homes in Ryegate. |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ryegate | - | A mobile home was destroyed. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Ryegate | - | Windows were broken by golf ball size hail. |
| May 2005 | Heavy Rain | Ryegate | - | 1.05 inches of rain in 24 hours |
| July 2004 | Flash Flood | Ryegate | - | Flash flooding on a ranch 10-15 miles east-southeast of the Snowy Mountains took out fenches. |
| July 2001 | Hail | Ryegate | - | Broken windows on car and house. Funnel cloud also spotted. |
| July 2001 | Flash Flood | Ryegate | - | Water covered a 1 mile stretch of roadway |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ryegate | - | Spotter estimated wind gust of 70 mph. Several large branches were downed in Ryegate. |
| June 1999 | Hail | Ryegate | - | Spotter report of dime size hail. |
| June 1995 | Hail | Ryegate | - | Two inch hail broke windows on a house and truck. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Ryegate | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Ryegate | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Ryegate | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Ryegate | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Ryegate | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Ryegate | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Ryegate | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Ryegate | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Ryegate | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Ryegate | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Ryegate | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Ryegate | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Ryegate | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Ryegate | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Ryegate | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Ryegate | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Ryegate | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Ryegate | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Ryegate | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Ryegate | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Ryegate | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Ryegate | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Ryegate | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Ryegate | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Ryegate | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Ryegate | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Ryegate | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Ryegate | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Ryegate | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Ryegate | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Ryegate | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Ryegate | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Ryegate | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Ryegate | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Ryegate | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Ryegate | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Ryegate | - | 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sims-Garfield Ranch | 2.4 miles | 1980 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100012496 in Record Group 79. |
| Golden Valley County | All 7 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.