BlockFrom the record
One of 48 National Register listings published here for Fergus County · listed in 1975 · category: Site.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Rocky Point
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 6 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 30 mi. S of Landusky in Charles M. Russell National Wildlife, Landusky, 59471
- When was it listed? May 1975
- Category. site
- Census division. Roy
- National Register reference number. 75001082 - 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
22 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Rocky Point between 1992 and 2015, burning about 1,111 acres in total. 15 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 | 15 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2009 | Natural | 3.1 acres | Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge | WHITE FACE |
| 9 August 2008 | Natural | 1.5 acres | Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge | LOST DOG |
| 5 August 1997 | Natural | 7.0 acres | Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge | SANDCREEK |
| 29 August 2013 | Natural | 23 acres | North Central Montana District | FRITZNER |
| 29 August 1996 | Natural | 40 acres | North Central Montana District | COW CREEK2 |
| 27 August 1997 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge | SEVENMILE |
| 26 August 2009 | Natural | under an acre | North Central Montana District | 211 FIRE |
| 25 August 2003 | Natural | 200 acres | Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge | BULL ELK |
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 75001082 in Record Group 79. |
| Fergus County | All 48 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.