Cat Creek Oil Field Sign

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

From the record

“The Cat Creek Oil Field Sign, located about 5 miles (8.0 km) west of the town of Mosby at about mile 150 on Highway 200, in Petroleum County, Montana, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.”
Wikipedia article Cat Creek Oil Field Sign, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Petroleum County · listed in 2015 · category: Object.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. Mi. 150, MT 200, Mosby, 59087
When was it listed? January 2015
Category. object
Census division. Winnett South
National Register reference number. 14001127 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Cat Creek Oil Field Sign between 1996 and 2019, burning about 251 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
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
29 August 1996	Natural	15 acres	North Central Montana District	BUTTONBTTE
16 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Petroleum County	FDH-MTLG55-157
14 August 1999	Natural	40 acres	North Central Montana District	NO 8
26 July 1999	Natural	160 acres	North Central Montana District	CAT CREEK
2 October 2008	Debris and open burning	36 acres	Miles City Field Office	JACKSON COULEE

Every fire recorded in Petroleum 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14001127 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Petroleum County	All 5 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.