Elkhorn Ranch Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.

From the record

One of 104 National Register listings published here for Gallatin County · listed in 2016 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 33133 Gallatin Rd., Gallatin Gateway, 59730
When was it listed? April 2016
Category. district
Census division. West Yellowstone
National Register reference number. 16000142 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

22 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Elkhorn Ranch Historic District between 1995 and 2018, burning about 42 acres in total. 16 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	16
Recreation and ceremony	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Fireworks	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
15 September 2001	Natural	17 acres	Custer Gallatin National Forest	BUFFALO HORN
6 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	DALY
4 August 2018	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	VANGUARD
4 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	MONUMENT
4 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	CINNAMON
3 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	DAVIS
27 August 1996	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	BIG SPRING
26 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	DALY

Every fire recorded in Gallatin County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Elkhorn Ranch Historic District: 4 prospects, 4 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Gold, Chromium, Nickel, REE, Uranium, Vanadium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Silver, Calcium. 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
Indian Cr-Taylor Cr Synclinal Area	Phosphorus-Phosphates, Chromium, Nickel, REE, Uranium, Vanadium, Fluorine-Fluorite	Prospect
Walton Prospect	Gold, Silver, Calcium	Prospect
Jewell Property	Gold	Past Producer
Gallatin River Phosphate	Phosphorus-Phosphates	Occurrence
Grouse Mountain Phosphate	Phosphorus-Phosphates	Occurrence
Phosphate Occurrence	Phosphorus-Phosphates	Prospect
Pulpit Rock	Phosphorus-Phosphates	Prospect
Sunshine Point Phosphate	Phosphorus-Phosphates	Occurrence
Tepee Creek Phosphate	Phosphorus-Phosphates	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Gallatin County

Storms near this property

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gallatin Gateway, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2008 and 2020: 5 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2020	Hail	Gallatin Gateway	-	Quarter size hail reported via twitter.
July 2020	Hail	Gallatin Gateway	-	Member of public relayed report of quarter size hail via mPing.
July 2020	Hail	Gallatin Gateway	-	Member of public reported quarter size hail via twitter.
June 2010	Hail	Gallatin Gateway	-	A thunderstorm dropped 1.25 inch diameter hail at Gallatin Gateway 6E.
July 2010	Hail	Gallatin Gateway	-	A thunderstorm dropped 1.5 inch diameter hail at Gallatin Gateway 10S.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Gallatin Gateway	-	A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 61 mph at Gallatin Gateway 5E.

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 16000142 in Record Group 79.
Gallatin County	All 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.