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Photograph of Fort Logan and Blockhouse
Photograph by John N. DeHaas, Jr, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Fort Logan and Blockhouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

From the record

“Fort Logan and Blockhouse is a site on the National Register of Historic Places located near White Sulphur Springs, Montana. It was added to the Register on October 6, 1970.”

Wikipedia article Fort Logan and Blockhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Meagher County · listed in 1970 · category: Site.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 17 mi. NW of White Sulphur Springs, White Sulphur Springs, 59645
  • When was it listed? October 1970
  • Category. site
  • Census division. White Sulphur Springs
  • National Register reference number. 70000360 - 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

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Fort Logan and Blockhouse between 1996 and 2006, burning about 59 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
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
15 August 2006Natural42 acresCentral Land Officenot named
1 August 2004Natural14 acresCentral Land Officenot named
10 July 1996Naturalunder an acreHelena - Lewis and Clark National ForestCOXEY CREEK
7 June 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHelena - Lewis and Clark National ForestCRYSTAL CREEK
24 June 1999Natural3.0 acresCentral Land OfficeRUSSELL

Every fire recorded in Meagher County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Fort Logan and Blockhouse: 5 occurrences, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Pumice, Gold, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Camas Creek Pyroxenite StockIronOccurrence1966
Camas CreekGoldUnknown
Elk CreekGoldUnknown
Unnamed PumicePumiceOccurrence
Unnamed PumicePumiceOccurrence
Unnamed PumicePumiceOccurrence
Unnamed PumicePumiceOccurrence

Every working recorded in Meagher 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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 70000360 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Meagher CountyAll 6 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.