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Madison Courthouse

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

From the record

“The Virginia City Historic District is a National Historic Landmark District encompassing Virginia City, Montana, United States. Designated in 1966, the district includes over two hundred nineteenth-century buildings, representing the site of a major gold strike and the capital of Montana for ten years.”
Wikipedia article Virginia City Historic District (Virginia City, Montana), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Madison County · listed in 1966 · category: Building · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 15 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. Wallace St., Virginia City, 59755
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. building
Census division. Virginia City
National Register reference number. 66000435 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

10 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Madison Courthouse between 1992 and 2017, burning about 160 acres in total. 4 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	4
Debris and open burning	2
Other causes	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Fireworks	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
19 September 2001	Other causes	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	ELKHORN CITY
5 August 1996	Natural	3.0 acres	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	HUNGRY HOLLOW
21 August 1992	Natural	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	not named
10 August 1994	Natural	1.0 acres	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	not named
4 July 2017	Fireworks	1.0 acres	Central Land Office	not named
29 July 2003	Natural	1.0 acres	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	AXOLOTL
19 July 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	ALDER GULCH
4 May 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Central Land Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 84 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 84 workings within 5 miles of Madison Courthouse: 49 past producers, 11 unknowns, 9 occurrences, 7 producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc. 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
Alder Gulch - Virginia City	Gold, Garnet	Past Producer	1863, 1925
Alfreda Mine	Manganese, Gold, Silver	Unknown
Fortune Mine	Gold, Zinc, Lead, Copper	Past Producer
Golconda	Copper, Molybdenum	Prospect
Greenback Mine	Gold, Silver, Arsenic	Past Producer	Vein
Mapleton Mine	Gold, Silver, Stone	Past Producer
Sampson Mine	Gold, Lead, Silver	Unknown
Valley View and Lucky Strike Lode Claims	Gold, Silver, Lead	Past Producer	Vein
Cabin and Cornucopia Lode	Silver, Gold, Copper, Lead, Zinc	Occurrence	Vein
Eagle Black Group	Gold, Copper, Silver	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this property

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Virginia City, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2017: 5 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Virginia City	1 hurt	A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 60 mph at Virginia City 2W. The strong wind blew a sign (2 feet by 2 feet) through a windshield of a car, injuring the driver.
March 2017	Flood	Virginia City	-	Madison County DES reports water flowing over several roadways in Virginia City, including over Highway 287, due to rapid snowmelt.
June 2010	Hail	Virginia City	-	A thunderstorm dropped 1.25 inch diameter hail at Virginia City.
June 2010	Hail	Virginia City	-	A thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Virginia City.
August 2007	Hail	Virginia City	-	A severe thunderstorm dropped .88 inch diameter hail at Virginia City 2W. The hail damaged 30 windows in Nevada City and caused minor injuries to passengers traveling in an open car train between Nevada City and Virginia City. Wind gusts were reported between 50 and 60 mph.
May 2002	Hail	Virginia City	-	A severe thunderstorm produced 1.00 inch hail in Virginia City.
July 1998	Hail	Virginia City	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
	Dr. Don L. Byam House	1.5 miles	2002
	Finney House	1.6 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 66000435 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Madison County	All 18 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.