BlockFrom the record
One of 20 National Register listings published here for Chouteau County · listed in 1974 · category: Site.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Citadel Rock
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
The listing
- Address. E of Fort Benton, Fort Benton, 59446
- When was it listed? November 1974
- Category. site
- Census division. Fort Benton
- National Register reference number. 74001095 - 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
3 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Citadel Rock between 1999 and 2018, burning about 26 acres in total. 1 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 | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 13 acres | Northeastern Land Office | not named |
| 7 August 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.1 acres | North Central Montana District | HOLE IN THE WALL |
| 24 July 1999 | Natural | 10 acres | North Central Montana District | NO 5 |
Storms near this property
3 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Benton, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1993 and 1995: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.
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
1 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eagle Butte School | 5.9 miles | 2009 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 74001095 in Record Group 79. |
| Chouteau County | All 20 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.
- 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.