Pompey's Pillar

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 2001. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

From the record

“Pompeys Pillar National Monument is a rock formation located in south central Montana, United States. Designated a national monument on January 17, 2001, and managed by the U.S.”
Wikipedia article Pompeys Pillar National Monument, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 48 National Register listings published here for Yellowstone County · listed in 1966 · category: Site · built in 2001 · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

Address. W of Pompey, Pompey's Pillar, 59064
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. site
Census division. Huntley Project
When was it built? 2001
National Register reference number. 66000440 - 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

35 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Pompey's Pillar between 1994 and 2020, burning about 453 acres in total. 11 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19
Natural	11
Debris and open burning	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
4 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Yellowstone County	I94 MM 25
7 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13 acres	Yellowstone County	MM 26 I94
7 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Southern Land Office	BUNDY RD@HWY 312
6 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Yellowstone County	HWY 3 MM 16
6 August 2013	Natural	8.5 acres	Billings Field Office	CASTLE BUTTE
5 August 2013	Natural	7.3 acres	Billings Field Office	CASTLE FLATS
4 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.2 acres	Southern Land Office	BUNDY RD. & BOZEMAN TRAIL
26 August 1996	Natural	under an acre	Miles City Field Office	POMPEYS

Every fire recorded in Yellowstone 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

1 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
	Huntley Project Office	7.4 miles	2017

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 66000440 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Yellowstone County	All 48 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.