Gardiner Jail

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

From the record

One of 35 National Register listings published here for Park County · listed in 2015 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 2nd St., Gardiner, 59030
When was it listed? August 2015
Category. building
Census division. Gardiner-Cooke City
National Register reference number. 15000486 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

49 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Gardiner Jail between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,268 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 1 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	19
Recreation and ceremony	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Fireworks	3
Debris and open burning	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
3 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Park County	GARDINER
14 September 2009	Natural	15 acres	Yellowstone National Park	RAINBOW
13 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	BRANDING IRON
12 September 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	POW WOW
10 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	PLUMBER
10 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	CLAGETT
10 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	LITTLE TRAIL CREEK
1 September 1994	Natural	37 acres	Yellowstone National Park	DECKARD

Every fire recorded in Park County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Gardiner Jail: 10 past producers, 5 occurrences, 3 producers, 3 unknowns. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Gold, Silver, Lead, Tungsten. 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
Bear Creek Springs	Geothermal	Producer
First Chance	Gold, Arsenic, Tungsten	Past Producer	Vein
Gardiner Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Gardiner Travertine Deposits	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Travertine
Gardiner Travertine Quarry	Travertine	Past Producer
Gardiner Travertine Saw	Stone, Dimension	Producer
Hazel	Gold, Silver, Iron, Copper	Unknown
Jardine	Gold, Silver, Arsenic, Tungsten, Copper, Lead	Producer	Replacement Vein
Jardine Mine	Gold, Tungsten, Arsenic, Silver, Copper	Past Producer	1870
Jardine-Crevasse Mountain Districts	Silver, Tungsten, Gold, Arsenic, Lead	Past Producer	1862, 1866

Every working recorded in Park County

Storms near this property

1 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gardiner, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2001: 1 wildfire. 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
August 2001	Wildfire	Gardiner	-	Little Joe Fire--Gallatin National ForestDate Started: August 24, 2001Cause of Ignition: LightningLocation: 20 miles east of Gardiner, MontanaSize: 860 acresContained: September 3rd, 2001Cost: $3 million

Every storm recorded in Park 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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Gardiner Bridge	under 500 feet	2025
	North Entrance Road Historic District	1.9 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 15000486 in Record Group 79.
Park County	All 35 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.