Sacajawea Hotel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Sacajawea Hotel, also known as Sacajawea Inn, is a hotel in Three Forks, Montana, United States. Built in 1910, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.”
Wikipedia article Sacajawea Hotel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 104 National Register listings published here for Gallatin County · listed in 1980 · 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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 5 Main St., Three Forks, 59752
When was it listed? January 1980
Category. building
Census division. Three Forks
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 80002418 - 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

23 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Sacajawea Hotel between 2000 and 2020, burning about 1,408 acres in total. 6 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	11
Natural	6
Debris and open burning	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
30 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Beaverhead County	201066
3 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fergus County	201056
28 September 2020	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Gallatin County	CIRCLE S
11 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Gallatin County	not named
27 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Gallatin County	not named
2 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	LYONS FACE
19 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Gallatin County	202063
17 August 2020	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Gallatin County	AIRPORT

Every fire recorded in Gallatin County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Sacajawea Hotel: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Pumice, Gold, Stone. 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
Logan-Madison River Ash	Pumice	Occurrence
Silica Quarry	Stone	Producer
Three Forks Placer	Gold	Prospect
B & N Portable Crusher	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Gallatin County

Storms near this property

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Three Forks, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2011: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 2011	Flood	Three Forks	-	Flooding near Three Forks closed Old Town Road. Flooding also occurred in the Gallatin Canyon near Greek Creek campground. Parts of the Missouri Headwaters State Park and Drouillard Fishing access also closed due to flooding.
July 2010	Hail	Three Forks	-	A thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Three Forks 5NE.
August 2002	Hail	Three Forks	-	A severe thunderstorm produced 0.75 inch hail in Three Forks.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Three Forks	-	GIANT COTTONWOOD TREES DOWNED
July 1998	Hail	Three Forks	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gallatin 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

6 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
Methodist Episcopal Church	under 500 feet	2000
Adams Block	0.1 miles	1999
Ruby Theatre	0.2 miles	1982
Three Valleys State Bank	0.2 miles	2005
Airway Radio Station	0.9 miles	1998
Three Forks of the Missouri	1.0 miles	1966

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80002418 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Gallatin County	All 104 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.