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Photograph of Cedarvale
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Cedarvale

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“Cedarvale, also known as Hillsboro Ranch, was a dude ranch and working ranch in Carbon County, southern Montana, United States. The ranch was established about 1903 by prospector Grosvener W.”

Wikipedia article Cedarvale (Hillsboro, Montana), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 81 National Register listings published here for Carbon County · listed in 1975 · category: District.

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

The listing

Fires near this property

34 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Cedarvale between 1992 and 2020, burning about 852 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 1 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
Natural25
Recreation and ceremony4
Other causes1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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 August 2001Naturalunder an acreBighorn Canyon National Recreation AreaBIKER
6 August 1994Naturalunder an acreBighorn Canyon National Recreation AreaHOLLIS
5 August 1994Naturalunder an acreCrow Agencynot named
5 August 1994Naturalunder an acreCrow Agencynot named
30 August 1996Naturalunder an acreBighorn Canyon National Recreation AreaCONFLUENCE
29 August 1994Naturalunder an acreBighorn Canyon National Recreation AreaDOUBLETREE
29 August 1994Naturalunder an acreBighorn Canyon National Recreation AreaA TEAM
28 August 1994Naturalunder an acreBighorn Canyon National Recreation AreaDAVIS CRK

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Cedarvale: 4 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, 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
Big Horn PlacerGoldUnknown
Sunset ClaimsUraniumOccurrence
UnknownUraniumOccurrence
UnknownUraniumProducerVein
Unnamed UraniumUraniumOccurrence
Unnamed UraniumUraniumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Carbon County

Storms near this property

6 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hillsboro, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2012 and 2025: 6 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2025Thunderstorm WindHillsboro-Mesonet hbom8 Hillsboro.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindHillsboro-no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindHillsboro-no account filed
August 2016Thunderstorm WindHillsboro-no account filed
July 2013Thunderstorm WindHillsboro-no account filed
April 2012Thunderstorm WindHillsboro-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carbon 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

3 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
Ewing-Snell Ranch2.2 miles1977
Caroline Lockhart Ranch2.9 miles1989
Bad Pass Trail3.7 miles1975

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 75000161 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Carbon CountyAll 81 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.