Byron R. Sherman House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

“Sherman House, also known as The Castle or The Castle of White Sulphur Springs, is a site on the National Register of Historic Places located in White Sulphur Springs, Montana, United States. It was added to the Register on September 15, 1977.”
Wikipedia article Byron R. Sherman House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Meagher 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Sherman, Byron R., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 310 2nd Ave., NE, White Sulphur Springs, 59645
When was it listed? September 1977
Category. building
Census division. White Sulphur Springs
National Register reference number. 77000820 - 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

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Byron R. Sherman House between 2008 and 2019, burning about 30 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
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Debris and open burning	1
Natural	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 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Central Land Office	not named
18 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Central Land Office	not named
11 August 2008	Natural	30 acres	Central Land Office	not named
26 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Meagher County	MIKSEL
25 April 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Meagher County	TOWNSEND FIRE

Every fire recorded in Meagher County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Byron R. Sherman House: 3 occurrences, 2 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Pumice, Gold, Geothermal, Silver. 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
Camp Robber Mine	Gold, Silver	Past Producer
Unname Limestone	Limestone, General	Unknown
White Sulphur Springs	Geothermal	Producer
Willow Creek Deposit	Silver, Titanium, Manganese, Iron, Gold	Past Producer	1915, 1920
Honeysett, Bluestreak & Triangle Cl	Gold	Unknown
Unnamed Pumice	Pumice	Occurrence
Unnamed Pumice	Pumice	Occurrence
Unnamed Pumice	Pumice	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Meagher 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
Parberry Block East	0.2 miles	2009
Wellman Block	0.2 miles	1994
Union League of America Hall	0.4 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 77000820 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Meagher County	All 6 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.