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Photograph of St. Mary's Mission
Photograph by Al Huntsman, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

St. Mary's Church and Pharmacy

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

From the record

“Mary's Mission is a mission established by the Society of Jesus of the Catholic Church, located now on Fourth Street in modern-day Stevensville, Montana. Founded in 1841 and designed as an ongoing village for Catholic Salish Indians, St.”

Wikipedia article St. Mary's Mission (Montana), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 92 National Register listings published here for Ravalli County · listed in 1970 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. North Ave., Stevensville, 59870
  • When was it listed? October 1970
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Stevensville
  • National Register reference number. 70000364 - 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

60 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of St. Mary's Church and Pharmacy between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,178 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 2 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 burning23
Natural17
Recreation and ceremony9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism2
Fireworks1

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
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRavaIIi County203 CACTUS TRL
4 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBitterroot National ForestWARMING
25 September 2003Debris and open burning70 acresSouthwestern Land Officenot named
2 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreSouthwestern Land Officenot named
2 September 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouthwestern Land Officenot named
12 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreBitterroot National ForestKOOTENAI 2
8 August 2005Naturalunder an acreBitterroot National ForestBROOKS CREEK
4 August 2002Naturalunder an acreBitterroot National ForestST. MARY'S MILE 4

Every fire recorded in Ravalli County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of St. Mary's Church and Pharmacy: 5 occurrences, 5 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Pumice, Garnet, Titanium, Metal, Thorium, Zirconium, Iron, Gold. 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
Main River ValleyIron, Titanium, Zirconium, ThoriumUnknown
Mccalla CreekTitanium, Iron, ZirconiumUnknown
Mccalla Creek Placer AreaGarnet, Titanium, Metal, Thorium, Zirconium, IronOccurrenceGarnet, Ilmenite, Magnetite, Monazite, Zircon
PlacerGoldOccurrence
Sharrot CreekTitanium, ThoriumUnknown
Silverthorn CreekTitanium, Zirconium, Iron, ThoriumUnknown
Strife ProspectTungstenOccurrence
Bitteroot ValleyPumiceUnknown
Unnamed LocationPumiceOccurrence
Willoughby Creek AshPumiceOccurrence

Every working recorded in Ravalli County

Storms near this property

21 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stevensville, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 heavy rain, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2002HailStevensville$2,000,000no account filed
November 2006FloodStevensville$60,000Kootenai Creek flooded from heavy rain and snow melt washing a bridge out. Minor small stream flooding was reported elsewhere in the county.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindStevensville$25,000A weather station at the Stevensville Airport reported the gust to 66 mph originating out of the northwest. Multiple power line and pole issues were reported in the northern Ravalli County due to the winds. It appears that the Stevensville area was the furthest south extent of the derecho winds, while the Missoula area took a direct hit.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindStevensville$20,000A severe thunderstorm moved across the Burnt Fork area near Stevensville during the evening hours and blew the roof off of a building.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindStevensville$15,000A strong thunderstorm moved through Ravalli County, snapping numerous trees four to eight feet above the ground. The trees were willows, poplars, and cottonwoods.
June 2022HailStevensville-Several reports of 1.00 inch hail.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindStevensville-A fence with 5 x 5 inch posts was blown down. Wind estimates near 60 mph.
July 2014Heavy RainStevensville-A person from the public reported 0.50 of rainfall that fell in 15 minutes. A person from Florence measured 0.74 that fell in 15 minutes as well.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindStevensville-An amateur radio operator reported a wind gust to 58 mph.
July 2008HailStevensville-A trained spotter reported 1 1/2 inch diameter hail with a passing storm.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindStevensville-Public reported wind gusts estimated at 60 mph. Several large tree brnaches were broken off trees in the area.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindStevensville-A tree was blown onto a house in Stevensville.
June 2004HailStevensville-no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindStevensville-no account filed
August 2002Heavy RainStevensville-no account filed
August 2002HailStevensville-no account filed
July 2002HailStevensville-no account filed
July 2002HailStevensville-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindStevensville-no account filed
August 1997HailStevensville-no account filed
September 1996Thunderstorm WindStevensville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ravalli 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

6 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Perry Foust Houseunder 500 feet1991
Stevensville Feed Millunder 500 feet1991
Philip and Ella Morr Houseunder 500 feet1991
St. Mary's Mission Historic District (Boundary Increase)0.1 miles2010
Calvin and Maggie Cook House0.1 miles1991
Stevensville Mercantile Company Oil Storage Building0.1 miles1991

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 70000364 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ravalli CountyAll 92 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.