A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.
From the record
“Chief Plenty Coups State Park is a state park located approximately 0.5 miles (0.8 km) west of Pryor, Montana, on the Crow Indian Reservation. Chief Plenty Coups' (Alek-Chea-Ahoosh) Home, located in the state park, is a National Historic Landmark with several contributing resources.”
Wikipedia article Chief Plenty Coups (Alek-Chea-Ahoosh) State Park and Home, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 38 National Register listings published here for Big Horn County · listed in 1970 · category: Site · a National Historic Landmark.
National Register reference number.70000354- 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
307 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 307 fires within 5 miles of Chief Plenty Coups (Alek-Chea-Ahoosh) House
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,716 acres in total. 35 started naturally. 20 were 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
Debris and open burning
74
Fireworks
68
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
46
Natural
35
Misuse of fire by a minor
22
Equipment and vehicle use
20
Arson/incendiarism
20
Smoking
12
Recreation and ceremony
7
Other causes
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
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
2 workings within 5 miles of Chief Plenty Coups (Alek-Chea-Ahoosh) House: 1 unknown, 1 occurrence.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Pryor, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 11 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood.
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 nearly stationary thunderstorm was situated over portions of western Big Horn County during the late evening hours on the 26th into the early morning hours of the 27th. Several inches of rain fell across this area within just a few hours. Flash flooding occurred on Pryor, Fly and Woody Creeks which resulted in damage to roads and bridges. Culverts were also displaced. Damage to trap and skeet field buildings at a fishing and shooting club was also reported.
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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