Photograph by Phil Konstantin, Public domain. Via
Wikimedia Commons.
Rosebud Battlefield-Where the Girl Saved Her Brother
A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
From the record
“Rosebud Battlefield State Park in Big Horn County, Montana preserves a large portion of the battlefield of the Battle of the Rosebud, fought on June 17, 1876. The battle is known by various other names such as The Battle Where the Girl Saved Her Brother by the Northern Cheyenne, and Crook's Fight on the Rosebud.”
Wikipedia article Rosebud Battlefield State Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 38 National Register listings published here for Big Horn County · listed in 1972 · category: Site · a National Historic Landmark.
National Register reference number.72000735- 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
20 since 1995
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Rosebud Battlefield-Where the Girl Saved Her Brother
between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,318 acres in total. 12 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
Natural
12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
4
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Recreation and ceremony
1
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 National Weather Service names
Kirby, the town this property stands in, in 38 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 24 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 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.
The tornado damaged a 20 foot diameter grain bin and tossed it 250 yards. A trailer was also damaged and blown across a driveway. There was also minor damage to a house as the gutters were ripped off and some of the metal roofing torn off. In addition, numerous large trees were uprooted or snapped in half.
Lodge Grass and Pass Creeks were out of their banks and caused minor flooding. In addition, other small streams and creeks were flooded in and around the town of Wyola.
Lodge Grass and Pass Creeks were out of their banks and caused minor flooding. In addition, other small streams and creeks were flooded in and around the town of Wyola.
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.
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.
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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