Sheep Creek Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

From the record

One of 82 National Register listings published here for Lewis and Clark County · listed in 2011 · category: Structure.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Milepost 5 on Recreation Rd., Wolf Creek, 59648
When was it listed? April 2011
Category. structure
Also known as. Reinforced Concrete Bridges in Montana, 1900-1958 MPS
Census division. Wolf Creek
National Register reference number. 11000225 - 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

118 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Sheep Creek Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,724 acres in total. 74 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	74
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24
Recreation and ceremony	8
Debris and open burning	7
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 2005	Natural	under an acre	Central Land Office	not named
7 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Central Land Office	MM227 I-15
4 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Central Land Office	not named
3 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Central Land Office	not named
19 September 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	9.4 acres	Central Land Office	MM 228
18 September 1998	Natural	35 acres	Central Land Office	WEST SHEEP
18 September 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Helena - Lewis and Clark National Forest	not named
17 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Central Land Office	MM 230

Every fire recorded in Lewis and Clark County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Sheep Creek Bridge: 8 past producers, 7 occurrences, 4 prospects, 3 unknowns. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Barium-Barite, Silver, Copper, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Bissonette Mine	Copper, Silver, Zinc, Lead, Barium-Barite, Arsenic	Past Producer	Barite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite, Tennantite
Bissonette Mine	Silver, Barium-Barite, Copper, Lead, Zinc	Unknown
Copper-Bearing Sandstone - Unnamed	Silver, Copper	Occurrence
Honeycomb	Copper, Silver, Gold	Past Producer	Gold
Hudson Mine	Copper, Gold, Silver	Past Producer
Prospected Mafic Dike-Name Unknown	Manganese, Strontium, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Barium-Barite	Occurrence
Prospected Quartz Vein-Name Unknown	Gold, Silver	Occurrence
Wolf Creek Coal Mine	Subbituminous, Bentonite	Past Producer	Bentonite
Wolf Creek District	Copper, Gold, Silver, Lead, Arsenic, Antimony	Producer	1890
Montreal Claim	Copper, Silver, Arsenic	Occurrence	Chalcopyrite, Tenorite

Every working recorded in Lewis and Clark County

Storms near this property

20 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wolf Creek, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 8 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 wildfire, 2 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 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Wolf Creek	$10,000	no account filed
June 2020	Heavy Rain	Wolf Creek	-	Estimates an additional 0.5 inches fell since 9 AM.
June 2020	Heavy Rain	Wolf Creek	-	Three-day rainfall report. Weather underground report.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Wolf Creek	-	Estimated winds of at least 60 mph.
July 2013	Hail	Wolf Creek	-	Hail estimated at 1.00 inches was visible on the Sieben Flats webcam 8 mi SW of Wolf Creek, MT.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Wolf Creek	-	A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 60 mph at Wolf Creek 3NNE.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Wolf Creek	-	A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 60 mph at Wolf Creek 10NW.
May 2008	Flood	Wolf Creek	-	Water over several area roadways near creeks...including Wolf Creek area and Elk Creek area near Augusta.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Wolf Creek	-	A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 59 mph at Wolf Creek 8N (the Gary Cooper Bridge DOT site).
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Wolf Creek	-	A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 60 mph at Wolf Creek 9S (Sieben Flats DOT site).
May 2001	Hail	Wolf Creek	-	Wolf Creek 3 NE spotter.
July 2001	Hail	Wolf Creek	-	Actual event location Wolf Creek 8 NW.
September 2000	Wildfire	Wolf Creek	-	Wolf Creek fire, 389 acres burned, vehicle caused, continued from August.
August 2000	Wildfire	Wolf Creek	-	Wolf Creek fire, 389 acres burned, vehicle caused, continued past August 31.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Wolf Creek	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Wolf Creek	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Wolf Creek	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Wolf Creek	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Wolf Creek	-	no account filed
September 1997	Hail	Wolf Creek	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lewis and Clark County

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

3 within 8 miles

Other 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Wolf Creek Hotel	2.1 miles	1997
Missouri River Bridge	4.4 miles	2010
C. B. Power Bungalow	4.9 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 11000225 in Record Group 79.
Lewis and Clark County	All 82 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.