DeBorgia Schoolhouse

Built in 1908. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“De Borgia Schoolhouse is a two-story wood-frame school located in De Borgia, Montana, United States which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 27, 1979. Constructed in 1908, the schoolhouse was the first two-story building built in the West End of Mineral County and is the only building now standing in De Borgia to survive the Great Fire of 1910.”
Wikipedia article De Borgia Schoolhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Mineral County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · built in 1908.

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.
Address. Thompson Falls DeBorgia Rd., DeBorgia, 59830
When was it listed? December 1979
Category. building
Census division. West End
When was it built? 1908
National Register reference number. 79001405 - 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

89 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of DeBorgia Schoolhouse between 1993 and 2020, burning about 76 acres in total. 58 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
Natural	58
Debris and open burning	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Recreation and ceremony	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Other causes	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
3 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	WEST TWIN CREEK
3 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	BROKEN HEART
17 September 2006	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Panhandle National Forest	COPPER GREY WFU
13 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	DEBORGIA
12 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	BIG CREEK FIRE
9 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	FLAT CRUZANE
9 August 2008	Natural	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	TWIN CREEK
9 August 2008	Natural	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	HAUGAN

Every fire recorded in Mineral County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of DeBorgia Schoolhouse: 12 occurrences, 7 past producers, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Lead, Copper, Lead, 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
Copper Rock Mine	Lead, Silver, Zinc, Copper	Occurrence
East Coeur D Alene Mine	Silver, Copper, Lead	Past Producer
East Coeur D'Alene Mine	Lead, Silver, Copper, Zinc	Occurrence	Vein
Rock Island	Zinc, Lead, Copper	Past Producer
Rock Island Mine	Copper, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer	Chalcopyrite, Chrysocolla, Galena, Malachite, Sphalerite
Texas Mine	Lead, Copper, Silver, Zinc	Occurrence
True Fissure	Silver, Lead	Prospect
Unnamed Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Valentine Mine	Lead, Zinc, Silver, Copper	Occurrence
Copper Rock Mine	Copper	Occurrence	Stratabound

Every working recorded in Mineral 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

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Savenac Nursery Historic District	2.4 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79001405 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mineral County	All 19 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.