Robbers Roost

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Madison County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 5 mi. N of Alder at MT 387A, Alder, 59749
When was it listed? January 1976
Category. building
Census division. Sheridan
National Register reference number. 76001124 - 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

7 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Robbers Roost between 2005 and 2020, burning about 17 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
Debris and open burning	5
Natural	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
15 September 2020	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Madison County	WATERLOO BRIDGE
15 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Madison County	SILVER SPRINGS
15 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Madison County	MT HWY 287
15 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Madison County	WISCONSIN CREEK
9 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	RAM HORN
17 April 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Madison County	MT HWY 287
16 April 2005	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	BARTOLETTI

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Robbers Roost: 10 occurrences, 8 past producers, 5 prospects, 3 unknowns. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Talc-Soapstone, Chromium, Thorium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Big Bertha Mine	Gold, Silver	Past Producer
Chromium Occurrence	Chromium, Feldspar, Mica, Quartz	Occurrence
Hill Crest	Gold, Lead, Silver	Past Producer
Horse Creek Quartz Diorite Pegmatite	Chromium, Mica, Feldspar, Quartz	Occurrence	Chromite
Horse Creek Talc Prospect	Copper, Talc-Soapstone	Occurrence	Malachite, Talc
Ramshorn Creek	Mica, Silica	Unknown
Ruby River	Garnet	Unknown
Sage Hen Mine	Gold, Silver, Zinc	Producer	1894
Unnamed Feldspar	Feldspar	Occurrence
Unnamed Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this property

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alder, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2013: 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2013	Hail	Alder	-	Hail measuring 1.00 inches (quarter sized) was reported 19 mi S of Alder, MT.

Every storm recorded in Madison 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

5 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Saint Mary of the Assumption	3.3 miles	1985
Christ Episcopal Church and Rectory	4.9 miles	1987
William O'Brien House	4.9 miles	1986
H. D. Rossiter Building	5.0 miles	1994
Ferris-Hermsmeyer-Fenton	5.6 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76001124 in Record Group 79.
Madison County	All 18 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.