BlockFrom the record
One of 8 National Register listings published here for Sweet Grass County · listed in 1978 · category: Site.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Yellowstone Crossing, Bozeman Trail
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
The listing
- Address. NE of Springdale on US 10, Springdale, 59011
- When was it listed? December 1978
- Category. site
- Census division. South of the Yellowstone
- National Register reference number. 78003407 - 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
10 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Yellowstone Crossing, Bozeman Trail between 2017 and 2020, burning about 27 acres in total. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Southern Land Office | MM358 |
| 6 September 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Southern Land Office | FALCON |
| 6 September 2018 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Southern Land Office | EAGLE |
| 22 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sweet Grass County | I90 MM 361 |
| 10 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sweet Grass County | MM 359 I-90 |
| 4 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 acres | Sweet Grass County | 51 DUCK CREEK RD. |
| 15 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southern Land Office | MENDENHALL RD |
| 18 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Sweet Grass County | 54 COW CREEK ROAD |
Mines and quarries near this property
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Yellowstone Crossing, Bozeman Trail: 4 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Calcium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Curry Calcite Deposit | Calcium | Occurrence | ||
| Smith Homestead | Calcium | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed Calcite | Calcium | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Calcite Deposit | Calcium | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Calcite Deposit | Calcium | Occurrence |
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 78003407 in Record Group 79. |
| Sweet Grass County | All 8 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.