Two Medicine Fight Site

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

From the record

“Two Medicine Fight Site is a site on the National Register of Historic Places located roughly 25 miles southeast of Browning, Montana, within the eastern boundary of the Blackfeet Nation. The location was the site of the only violent encounter of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, on July 27, 1806.”
Wikipedia article Two Medicine Fight Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Pondera 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

Address. About 25 mi. SE of Browning, Browning, 59486
When was it listed? October 1970
Category. site
Census division. Blackfeet Reservation East
National Register reference number. 70000361 - 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 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Two Medicine Fight Site between 1993 and 2018, burning about 350 acres in total. 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Natural	2
Smoking	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
5 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	150 acres	Blackfeet Agency	OIL FIRE
26 August 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	78 acres	Blackfeet Agency	PROVIDENCE ROAD
18 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Blackfeet Agency	OIL WELL
14 August 2015	Natural	1.0 acres	Blackfeet Agency	COTTONWOOD
4 July 2016	Fireworks	1.0 acres	Blackfeet Agency	HENSLEY
18 July 2018	Smoking	under an acre	Blackfeet Agency	BADGER
28 June 2016	Natural	under an acre	Blackfeet Agency	COTTON
5 November 1996	Railroad operations and maintenance	100 acres	Blackfeet Agency	MOUNEZFIRE

Every fire recorded in Pondera 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 70000361 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pondera County	All 3 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.