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Photograph of Lonesomehurst Cabin
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Lonesomehurst Cabin

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

From the record

“Lonesomehurst Cabin is a log cabin style recreational residence on the west side of the South Fork Arm of Hebgen Lake near West Yellowstone, in Gallatin County, Montana. There are three buildings on the site: a wood-frame cabin constructed circa 1919, a log boathouse built in 1958, and a wood frame outhouse built about 1930.”

Wikipedia article Lonesomehurst Cabin, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 104 National Register listings published here for Gallatin County · listed in 2011 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Lonesomehurst Residential Residence Blk. A., Lot 1., West Yellowstone, 59758
  • When was it listed? August 2011
  • Category. building
  • Census division. West Yellowstone
  • National Register reference number. 11000541 - 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

56 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Lonesomehurst Cabin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,874 acres in total. 10 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
Recreation and ceremony22
Natural10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Fireworks3
Debris and open burning2
Smoking2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestCONTOUR
30 September 1999Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresCuster Gallatin National ForestTARGHEE
19 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCuster Gallatin National Forestnot named
17 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestLATE NIGHT
15 September 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestVALENTINE
15 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestSOUTH FORK POWERLINE
1 September 2012Naturalunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestHORSE BUTTE
9 August 2003Naturalunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestDENNY CREEK

Every fire recorded in Gallatin County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Lonesomehurst Cabin: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Geothermal, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Fluorine-Fluorite, Uranium, Vanadium, Nickel, Chromium, REE. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Madison Range DistrictPhosphorus-Phosphates, Fluorine-Fluorite, Uranium, Vanadium, Nickel, Chromium, REEPast ProducerBEDS
Targhee Sulfur Warm SpringsGeothermalProducer

Every working recorded in Gallatin County

Storms near this property

5 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Yellowstone, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2003 and 2019: 2 wildfire, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 dust devil. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2003Dust DevilWest Yellowstone$3,000no account filed
July 2019Thunderstorm WindWest Yellowstone-The public reported about two dozen large trees downed by thunderstorm winds at the KOA near West Yellowstone. Some tents and awnings were destroyed. Wind speed and time were estimated.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindWest Yellowstone-no account filed
September 2003WildfireWest Yellowstone-no account filed
August 2003WildfireWest Yellowstone-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gallatin 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

1 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Watkins Creek Ranch5.3 miles2006

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 11000541 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Gallatin CountyAll 104 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.