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Montana State Training School Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

From the record

“The Montana State Training School Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. It is a complex of buildings set around an oval green and a central administrative building named Griffin Hall.”

Wikipedia article Montana State Training School Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 2014 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Fires near this property

37 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Montana State Training School Historic District between 1994 and 2020, burning about 22 acres in total. 13 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
Natural13
Recreation and ceremony7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking1
Firearms and explosives use1

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
22 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresButte Field OfficeBOOMERANG
22 September 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestPOORE
12 September 2007Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestPORCUPINE
7 August 2008Naturalunder an acreButte Field OfficeFREE ENTERPRISE MINE
7 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCentral Land OfficeBOULDER POWERLINE
6 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCentral Land Officenot named
6 August 1998Natural1.2 acresBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestBOULDER HOT SPRINGS
23 August 1998Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestMCCARTY CREEK

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 35 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of Montana State Training School Historic District: 25 past producers, 5 prospects, 4 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Uranium, Silver, Copper. 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
Amazon MineLead, Silver, Gold, Copper, ZincPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Sphalerite
Amazon MineGold, Copper, Lead, Silver, ZincPast Producer
BaltimoreGold, Lead, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Baltimore MineSilver, Zinc, Lead, Gold, Copper, ArsenicPast Producer1885
Boulder District-MontanaLead, Gold, Silver, Uranium, Copper, Zinc, Tungsten, Antimony, Barium-Barite, Molybdenum, ArsenicPast Producer1870
Boulder Hot SpringsGeothermalProducer
Cleveland MineLead, Silver, Gold, Zinc, CopperPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Sphalerite
Free Enterprise MineSilver, Uranium, Lead, Copper, Zinc, Molybdenum, Barium-Barite, Arsenic, AntimonyPast Producer1949
Golden PointLead, Silver, Copper, GoldPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Gold
Golden PointSilver, Copper, Gold, LeadPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this property

7 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boulder, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 5 hail, 1 wildfire, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
August 2000WildfireBoulder2 hurtHigh Ore/Boulder Hill fire, 12604 acres burned, cause unknown.
July 2022HailBoulder-Trainer spotter reported hail falling between dime and quarter size.
August 2019HailBoulder-A trained spotter reports hail up to 1.5 inches in diameter 5 miles NNW of Whitehall at 5:26 PM MST.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindBoulder-Mesonet station in Boulder reported 58-mph peak gust from thunderstorm.
June 2002HailBoulder-A severe thunderstorm produced 1.00 inch hail near Boulder.
August 2002HailBoulder-A severe thunderstorm produced 0.75 inch hail in Boulder.
August 2001HailBoulder-Dime sized hail reported by spotter in the town of Boulder.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Jefferson County Courthouse0.6 miles1980
Montana Deaf and Dumb Asylum1.1 miles1985
Boulder Hot Springs Hotel2.2 miles1979

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 14000957 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson CountyAll 14 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.