BlockFrom the record
One of 81 National Register listings published here for Carbon County · listed in 2011 · category: Site.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Bearcreek Cemetery
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.
The listing
- Address. 1 mi. W. of Bearcreek, Bearcreek, 59008
- When was it listed? January 2011
- Category. site
- Census division. Red Lodge
- National Register reference number. 11000017 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
5 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Bearcreek Cemetery between 2002 and 2010, burning about 135 acres in total. 3 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 | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2007 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | Custer Gallatin National Forest | BEARCREEK ASSIST |
| 11 August 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Billings Field Office | LITTLE |
| 23 July 2009 | Natural | 131 acres | Custer Gallatin National Forest | LARKIN MUTUAL AID |
| 14 July 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Custer Gallatin National Forest | MT. MAURICE |
| 24 October 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Custer Gallatin National Forest | DRY CREEK ASSIST |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bearcreek Cemetery: 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Chromium, Uranium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Green Streak Claim | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| Red Lodge Washoe | Chromium | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
2 since 2024Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bearcreek, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bearcreek | - | no account filed |
| September 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bearcreek | - | 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
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Bearcreek Bank | 1.0 miles | 2004 |
 | Smith Mine Historic District | 2.5 miles | 2009 |
 | Warila Boarding House and Sauna | 5.5 miles | 1985 |
| Yodeler Motel | 5.6 miles | 2014 | |
| Red Lodge Commercial Historic District (Boundary Increase) | 5.6 miles | 1984 | |
| Red Lodge Commercial Historic District (Boundary Increase) | 5.6 miles | 1986 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 11000017 in Record Group 79. |
| Carbon County | All 81 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.