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One of 92 National Register listings published here for Ravalli County · listed in 1974 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Alta Ranger Station
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. S of Conner in Bitterroot National Forest, Conner, 59829
- When was it listed? December 1974
- Category. building
- Census division. Sula
- National Register reference number. 74001099 - 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
94 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Alta Ranger Station between 1992 and 2019, burning about 94 acres in total. 76 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 | 76 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Smoking | 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.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Bitterroot National Forest | 9197 ALTA |
| 6 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Bitterroot National Forest | OVERWHICH |
| 3 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Bitterroot National Forest | RAGING RUSSIAN |
| 26 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Bitterroot National Forest | 9750 ALTA |
| 25 September 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Bitterroot National Forest | THUNDER FIRE |
| 25 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Bitterroot National Forest | DEER WALK |
| 9 August 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Bitterroot National Forest | SMOKEY BEAR |
| 9 August 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Bitterroot National Forest | WEST MTN |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 22 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Alta Ranger Station: 9 occurrences, 6 unknowns, 6 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Iron, Silver, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clay Pit | Clay | Unknown | ||
| Copper Canyon Mine | Gold, Copper, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Highland Mine | Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Hughs Creek Placer | Gold, Tin | Past Producer | ||
| Lbj, Pic and Per Group | Gold, PGE, Silver | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed Location | Niobium (Columbium), Barium-Barite, REE | Occurrence | ||
| Woods Creek Copper Mine | Copper, Gold, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Woods Creek Iron Deposit | Iron, Silica | Prospect | 1940 | |
| Lucky Joe Mine | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| Lucky Joe Mine | Uranium | Occurrence |
Storms near this property
9 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Conner, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2001 and 2022: 7 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2022 | Hail | Conner | - | A person from Conner mentioned that quarter size hail ruined their garden. |
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Conner | - | Trained spotter estimated 59 mph wind gust. A person from the public on Facebook estimated wind gusts were over 65 mph in Darby. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Conner | - | A spotter 7 miles southwest of Conner estimated 1 inch hail and heavy rain. |
| July 2009 | Hail | Conner | - | Hail up to one inch in diameter reported by a storm spotter. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Conner | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Conner | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Conner | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Conner | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Flash Flood | Conner | - | no account filed |
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 74001099 in Record Group 79. |
| Ravalli County | All 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.