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One of 20 National Register listings published here for Powell County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
William K. Kohrs Free Memorial Library
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Kohrs, William K., Free Memorial Library - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 5th St. and Missouri Ave., Deer Lodge, 59722
- When was it listed? May 1979
- Category. building
- Census division. Deer Lodge
- Architectural style. Beaux-Arts
- National Register reference number. 79001423 - 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
14 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of William K. Kohrs Free Memorial Library between 1992 and 2018, burning about 70 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 |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 2018 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 4.2 acres | Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site | RAILROAD II |
| 6 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Southwestern Land Office | not named |
| 31 August 1998 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.5 acres | Southwestern Land Office | FRONTAGE ROAD |
| 31 July 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.8 acres | Southwestern Land Office | not named |
| 22 July 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site | GRAVEL PIT FIRE |
| 2 July 2012 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site | RAILROAD 2 |
| 2 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site | RAILROAD 3-6 |
| 12 July 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southwestern Land Office | BECK |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 11 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of William K. Kohrs Free Memorial Library: 8 occurrences, 1 unknown, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Pumice, Silver, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Champion Tailings Mine | Silver | Unknown | ||
| Deer Lodge Manganese | Manganese | Prospect | ||
| Mastodon Sand and Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Fred Burr Creek Pumice Deposit | Pumice | Occurrence | Pumice | |
| Mullan Gulch Pumice Deposit | Pumice | Occurrence | Pumice | |
| South Deer Lodge Pumice Deposit | Pumice | Occurrence | Pumice | |
| Taylor Creek Ash | Pumice | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Pumice | Pumice | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Pumice | Pumice | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Pumice | Pumice | Occurrence |
Storms near this property
28 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Deer Lodge, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1993 and 2014: 23 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1993 | Hail | Deer Lodge | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2014 | Flash Flood | Deer Lodge | $500 | According to a spotter 1 mile west of Deer Lodge 0.80 of rain fell in a time span of 20 minutes. This rain resulted in street flooding in the town of Deer Lodge with water lapping doors of many businesses. The Powell County fair and rodeo were impacted by the flooding especially the fairgrounds exhibition center. Prisoners from the state prison were summoned to help setup sandbags to help mitigate the flooding. |
| August 2014 | Hail | Deer Lodge | - | A person from the public west of Deer Lodge estimated that quarter size hail fell during this event. Also a trained spotter located 1 mile west of Deer Lodge measured pea size hail and reported that large amounts of it had fallen. |
| August 2014 | Heavy Rain | Deer Lodge | - | A trained spotter measured 0.80 of rainfall in 20 minutes due to a thunderstorm. |
| June 2011 | Flood | Deer Lodge | - | Cottonwood creek flooded parts of the town of Deer Lodge and down stream. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Deer Lodge | - | The sheriffs office in Deer Lodge received one inch diameter hail. |
| August 2008 | Hail | Deer Lodge | - | A trained spotter reported 0.75 inch hail from a passing thunderstorm. |
| August 2008 | Hail | Deer Lodge | - | A trained spotter reported 0.75 inch hail from a passing thunderstorm. |
| August 2008 | Hail | Deer Lodge | - | A trained spotter reported 0.75 inch hail from a passing thunderstorm. |
| July 2002 | Hail | Deer Lodge | - | 0.75 to 1.00 inch hail reported by spotters in Deer Lodge. |
| June 1994 | Hail | Deer Lodge | - | A roof was ripped off a mobile home. |
| August 2003 | Hail | Deer Lodge | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deer Lodge | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Deer Lodge | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Deer Lodge | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Deer Lodge | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Deer Lodge | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Deer Lodge | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Deer Lodge | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Deer Lodge | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Deer Lodge | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deer Lodge | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Deer Lodge | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Deer Lodge | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Deer Lodge | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Deer Lodge | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Deer Lodge | - | no account filed |
| August 1994 | Hail | Deer Lodge | - | no account filed |
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
6 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Nick J. Bielenberg House | 0.4 miles | 1979 |
 | Deer Lodge American Women's League Chapter House | 0.4 miles | 1982 |
 | William E. Coleman House | 0.6 miles | 1979 |
 | Trask Hall | 0.7 miles | 1982 |
| Deer Lodge Central Business Historic District | 0.8 miles | 2008 | |
| Robworth Apartments | 0.8 miles | 2023 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 79001423 in Record Group 79. |
| Powell County | All 20 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.