First National Bank of Ekalaka and Rickard Hardware Store Building
Built in 1940 (Streamline Moderne). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.
From the record
“The First National Bank of Ekalaka and Rickard Hardware Store Building, in Ekalaka, Montana, was built in 1940. In 2015 it became the first-listed historic site in Carter County to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article First National Bank of Ekalaka and Rickard Hardware Store Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 2 National Register listings published here for Carter County · listed in 2015 · category: Building · built in 1940, Streamline Moderne.
National Register reference number. 15000815 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
32 since 1995
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 32 fires within 5 miles of First National Bank of Ekalaka and Rickard Hardware Store Building
between 1995 and 2019, burning about 10,583 acres in total. 25 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
25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
5
Recreation and ceremony
1
Equipment and vehicle use
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of First National Bank of Ekalaka and Rickard Hardware Store Building: 1 occurrence.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Aggregate, Light Weight. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Ekalaka, the town this property stands in, in 105 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 75 hail, 22 thunderstorm wind, 3 heavy rain, 3 funnel cloud.
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.
A severe thunderstorm moved across portions of Carter County during the early morning hours on the 13th. Very intense straight line winds from this thunderstorm downed |30-35 large pine trees. In addition, a number of additional trees had limbs snapped.
Considerable damage occurred in the town of Ekalaka. The door from a newspaper building was blown off its hinges. An 80 foot tall 36 inch diameter Cottonwood tree was blown over along with numerous trailers being overturned. There was tree damage and power lines down all over town resulting in power outages. Other damages included blown down distribution poles and broken windows. In addition, four hangers and an enclosed private aircraft at the county airport suffered severe damage.
Winds were estimated to be around 70 mph. This combined with hail resulted in damage to the siding of a house and windows being blown out on the west side.
Four cattle shelters destroyed in Ridgeway. 400 gallon propane tank blown over. Cattle shelter blown into creek. Roof damage to houses. Wooden fences blown down.
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.
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.
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