J. C. Adam's Stone Barn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“Adams Stone Barn is a historic Romanesque Revival barn constructed of stone and wood located about 1 mile (1.6 km) northeast of the town of Sun River, Montana, in the United States. It is the only Romanesque Revival stone barn in the United States located west of the Mississippi River.”
Wikipedia article J. C. Adams Stone Barn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Cascade County · listed in 1979 · 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. Adam's, J. C., Stone Barn - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. NE of Sun River off U.S. 81, Sun River, 59487
When was it listed? January 1979
Category. building
Census division. Sun River Valley
National Register reference number. 79001399 - 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 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of J. C. Adam's Stone Barn in 2017, burning about 4 acres in total. None 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	3
Other causes	2

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 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Central Land Office	VAUGHN
20 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Central Land Office	SUN RIVER
18 August 2017	Other causes	1.0 acres	Central Land Office	VAUGHN
20 July 2017	Other causes	under an acre	Central Land Office	SUN RIVER
24 May 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Central Land Office	VAUGHN

Every fire recorded in Cascade County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of J. C. Adam's Stone Barn: 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Bentonite. 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
	Richem Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Unnamed Location	Bentonite	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Cascade County

Storms near this property

12 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sun River, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood. 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
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Sun River	$60,000	no account filed
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Sun River	-	Ambient weather sensor measured a severe gust.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Sun River	-	Public weather station reported a severe caliber gust. Location was estimated.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Sun River	-	Social media report (image) received showing a 6 to 8 inch limb that was knocked down west of Vaughn. Size of limb is estimated.
June 2022	Hail	Sun River	-	Video showing hail was taken in Sun River. Person who took the video reported up to quarter sized hail. Time estimated from radar.
July 2022	Hail	Sun River	-	Trained spotter reported 3.25 inch hail near Sun River. Photos from the area submitted by general public appear to verify this report.
May 2019	Flood	Sun River	-	MT DOT reported floodwater across MT-200 just east of the town of Sun River. In addition, NWS employees documented additional flooding along the Sun River, in and near the town of Sun River, on May 28th. Exact duration of flooding unknown.
June 2018	Flood	Sun River	-	NWS Great Falls hydrologist reported and photographed flooding in the town of Sun River due to the Sun River flowing out of its banks.
May 2014	Hail	Sun River	-	Hail measuring 0.75 inches was reported.
June 2011	Flood	Sun River	-	U.S. Highway 89 closed northwest of Sun River due to flooding from rising waters along the Sun River on 6/6/11. Significant and devastating flooding in Sun River. Numerous roads and homes were flooded in the town of Sun River by 6/8/11. Highway 200 from Sun River to Bowmans Corner also closed. North Fort Shaw Road and Simms-Fairfield Road were also closed. In Great Falls, a portion of River Road and McIver Road was closed due to water over the roadway. Woodland Estates Road closed due to flooding on 6/11/11.
August 2002	Hail	Sun River	-	A severe thunderstorm produced 1.75 inch hail at Sun River 2S.
June 1996	Hail	Sun River	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cascade 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
Robert Vaughn Homestead	6.2 miles	1982
Fort Shaw Historic District and Cemetery	6.6 miles	1985
Fort Shaw Historic District and Cemetery	7.3 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79001399 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cascade County	All 43 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.