Ewing-Snell Ranch

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

“The Ewing-Snell Ranch was established between 1896 and 1898 by Erastus Ewing in Carbon County, Montana, on Layout Creek between Bighorn Canyon and the Pryor Mountains in a region called Dryhead Country. Ewing took up ranching after failing as a gold miner.”
Wikipedia article Ewing-Snell Ranch, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 81 National Register listings published here for Carbon County · listed in 1977 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 sitess, 2 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. S of Dryhead, Dryhead, 59014
When was it listed? May 1977
Category. building
Census division. East Carbon
National Register reference number. 77000114 - 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

34 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Ewing-Snell Ranch between 1992 and 2020, burning about 280 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
Natural	25
Recreation and ceremony	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Other causes	1
Debris and open burning	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
7 August 2001	Natural	under an acre	Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area	BIKER
6 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area	HOLLIS
5 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Crow Agency	not named
5 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Crow Agency	not named
29 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area	DOUBLETREE
28 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area	DAVIS CRK
22 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Miles City Field Office	SALTLICK
21 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area	SNELL

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Ewing-Snell Ranch: 7 occurrences, 3 prospects, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Limestone, General, Vanadium, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Big Horn Placer	Gold	Unknown
Big Cave In Nos. 1-18	Vanadium, Uranium, Limestone, General	Prospect
Midland Empire Nos. 1-14	Vanadium, Uranium, Limestone, General	Prospect
Bluebird Nos. 1 & 2	Uranium, Limestone, General	Prospect
East Pryor Mine	Uranium	Occurrence
East Pryor Mine	Uranium	Past Producer
Key Mine	Uranium	Occurrence
Key Mine	Uranium	Occurrence
Sunset Claims	Uranium	Occurrence
Unknown	Uranium	Occurrence

Every working 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Bad Pass Trail	2.2 miles	1975
Cedarvale	2.2 miles	1975
Caroline Lockhart Ranch	3.9 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 77000114 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Carbon County	All 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.