Granite County Jail

Built in 1896 (eclectic architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Granite County Jail, located on Kearney St. in Philipsburg in Granite County, Montana, was built in 1896. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.”
Wikipedia article Granite County Jail, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Granite County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1896, eclectic architecture.

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. Kearney St., Philipsburg, 59858
When was it listed? August 1980
Category. building
Census division. Philipsburg
When was it built? 1896
Architectural style. eclectic architecture
National Register reference number. 80002420 - 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

42 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Granite County Jail between 1994 and 2020, burning about 330 acres in total. 14 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	14
Debris and open burning	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
12 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	FRANKLIN FIRE
1 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Southwestern Land Office	not named
1 September 2004	Natural	under an acre	Southwestern Land Office	not named
9 August 2020	Natural	under an acre	Granite County	GRANITE
9 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Southwestern Land Office	not named
6 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Southwestern Land Office	not named
6 August 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Southwestern Land Office	BATHHOUSE CREEK
4 August 1994	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Butte Field Office	FRED BURR

Every fire recorded in Granite County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 165 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 165 workings within 5 miles of Granite County Jail: 91 past producers, 38 unknowns, 26 occurrences, 5 prospects. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Silver, Manganese, Gold, Silver, Manganese. 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
Algonquin Mine	Silver, Manganese, Lead, Zinc, Copper	Past Producer	1865, 1878
Cadgie Taylor Mine	Silver, Zinc, Silica, Copper, Gold, Lead, Barium-Barite	Producer	Argentite, Cerargyrite, Chlorargyrite
Cadgie-Taylor Mine	Gold, Silver, Zinc, Lead, Copper	Past Producer
Cliff Mine	Gold, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Copper	Past Producer
Contact Mining Custom Mill	Gold, Lead, Silver, Copper	Past Producer
Copper Jack Mine	Copper, Iron, Garnet	Occurrence
Dissett Mine	Phosphorus-Phosphates, Iron, Aluminum	Past Producer	1920, 1949
Franklin Hill Iron Deposit	Silica, Manganese, Iron	Past Producer	1900, 1904
Gem Mine	Silver, Manganese, Gold, Copper, Lead, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Arsenic, Antimony	Past Producer	Replacement Vein
Hobo Mine	Silver, Gold, Lead, Zinc, Antimony, Arsenic	Past Producer	1884, 1892

Every working recorded in Granite County

Storms near this property

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Philipsburg, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2014: 5 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
July 2008	Hail	Philipsburg	$12,000	State employee 14 miles south of Philipsburg near Georgetown Lake reported 1.75 inch hail.
July 2014	Heavy Rain	Philipsburg	-	Weather observer reported 1.27 of rainfall.
June 2011	Flood	Philipsburg	-	Boulder creek near Maxville flooded and isolated one resident. A road flooded near the east fork of Rock creek. Debris piled up against many bridges across the county. Many residents protected their property with sandbags.
July 2009	Hail	Philipsburg	-	Weather spotter reported quarter size hail in Philipsburg. Eight miles northwest of Philipsburg, a camper reported half inch diameter hail at 5500 feet.
July 2009	Hail	Philipsburg	-	Report of dime sized hail in Philipsburg.
August 2005	Hail	Philipsburg	-	no account filed
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Philipsburg	-	no account filed
July 1997	Hail	Philipsburg	-	no account filed
September 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Philipsburg	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Granite 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
Philipsburg Historic District	0.1 miles	1986
M. E. Doe House	0.3 miles	1986
Philipsburg Grade School	0.4 miles	1986
Anderson Lumber Company	0.4 miles	1986
Ringeling House	0.4 miles	1986
Miners Union Hall	2.3 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80002420 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Granite County	All 12 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.