BlockFrom the record
One of 48 National Register listings published here for Fergus County · listed in 2011 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Gus Nelson Homestead
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.
The listing
- Listed as. Nelson, Gus, Homestead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. Missouri River, River Mi #129.4-131.1 W side of river, Cow Island Vicinity, 59489
- When was it listed? March 2011
- Category. district
- Census division. Winifred
- National Register reference number. 11000093 - 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
11 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Gus Nelson Homestead between 2000 and 2019, burning about 370 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 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 September 2012 | Natural | 22 acres | Malta Field Office | HIDEAWAY |
| 20 August 2007 | Natural | under an acre | North Central Montana District | TWO CALF |
| 2 August 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | North Central Montana District | TWO CALF |
| 13 August 2011 | Natural | 40 acres | North Central Montana District | WOODHAWK |
| 11 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 36 acres | Northeastern Land Office | not named |
| 8 July 2018 | Natural | 6.4 acres | North Central Montana District | WOODHAWK CREEK |
| 29 July 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Malta Field Office | BULL |
| 2 July 2003 | Natural | 25 acres | North Central Montana District | BULL |
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 11000093 in Record Group 79. |
| Fergus County | All 48 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.