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Sims-Garfield Ranch

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Sims-Garfield Ranch is a site on the National Register of Historic Places located near Ryegate, Montana. It was added to the Register on August 27, 1980.”

Wikipedia article Sims-Garfield Ranch, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Golden Valley 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 6 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. E of Ryegate, Ryegate, 59074
  • When was it listed? August 1980
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Ryegate
  • National Register reference number. 80002419 - 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 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Sims-Garfield Ranch between 2008 and 2020, burning about 3,924 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
Natural2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
31 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNortheastern Land Officenot named
30 August 2008Natural3,558 acresNortheastern Land OfficeGOLDEN VALLEY COMPLEX
20 August 2020Natural1.0 acresGolden Valley CountyBOB AND DAN
19 July 2014Equipment and vehicle use100 acresNortheastern Land OfficeCOLSON
19 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined264 acresNorth Central Montana DistrictTODD

Every fire recorded in Golden Valley County

Storms near this property

51 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ryegate, the town this property stands in, in 51 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 42 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2025HailRyegate-Time estimated by radar for hail.
June 2023Flash FloodRyegate-Flash flooding was reported in the town of Ryegate.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindRyegate-A lot of marble size hail accompanied the winds.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindRyegate-Microburst winds estimated at speeds upwards of 75 mph occurred in the vicinity of Ryegate. The microburst was a quarter mile wide and a mile long with the majority of the damage occurring in the town of Ryegate. Several structures were impacted with mostly minor roof damage. Numerous trees were impacted as large tree limbs were downed and several large pine trees uprooted.
June 2011Flash FloodRyegate-A thunderstorm producing between 5.00 and 5.5 inches of rain resulted in flash flooding and flooded homes in Ryegate.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindRyegate-A mobile home was destroyed.
June 2007HailRyegate-Windows were broken by golf ball size hail.
May 2005Heavy RainRyegate-1.05 inches of rain in 24 hours
July 2004Flash FloodRyegate-Flash flooding on a ranch 10-15 miles east-southeast of the Snowy Mountains took out fenches.
July 2001HailRyegate-Broken windows on car and house. Funnel cloud also spotted.
July 2001Flash FloodRyegate-Water covered a 1 mile stretch of roadway
June 1999Thunderstorm WindRyegate-Spotter estimated wind gust of 70 mph. Several large branches were downed in Ryegate.
June 1999HailRyegate-Spotter report of dime size hail.
June 1995HailRyegate-Two inch hail broke windows on a house and truck.
May 2020HailRyegate-no account filed
July 2019HailRyegate-no account filed
July 2019HailRyegate-no account filed
June 2015HailRyegate-no account filed
June 2007HailRyegate-no account filed
June 2007HailRyegate-no account filed
July 2007HailRyegate-no account filed
June 2006HailRyegate-no account filed
June 2006HailRyegate-no account filed
June 2006HailRyegate-no account filed
June 2006HailRyegate-no account filed
August 2006HailRyegate-no account filed
June 2005HailRyegate-no account filed
May 2005HailRyegate-no account filed
May 2005HailRyegate-no account filed
July 2005HailRyegate-no account filed
June 2003HailRyegate-no account filed
June 2003HailRyegate-no account filed
August 2003HailRyegate-no account filed
July 2001HailRyegate-no account filed
June 2001HailRyegate-no account filed
June 2001HailRyegate-no account filed
June 2001HailRyegate-no account filed
June 2001HailRyegate-no account filed
June 2001HailRyegate-no account filed
July 2001HailRyegate-no account filed
July 2001HailRyegate-no account filed
July 2001HailRyegate-no account filed
July 2001HailRyegate-no account filed
May 2000HailRyegate-no account filed
May 2000HailRyegate-no account filed
May 2000HailRyegate-no account filed
July 2000HailRyegate-no account filed
June 1999HailRyegate-no account filed
July 1997HailRyegate-no account filed
June 1995HailRyegate-no account filed
June 1995HailRyegate-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Golden Valley 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

2 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Musselshell River Bridge2.4 miles2025
Grace Lutheran Church of Barber6.3 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80002419 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Golden Valley CountyAll 7 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.
  • 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.