Big Hole Pumpstation

Built in 1899. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Silver Bow County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1899.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. MT 43, Divide, 59727
When was it listed? September 1980
Category. building
Census division. Butte-Silver Bow South
When was it built? 1899
National Register reference number. 80002432 - 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

30 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Big Hole Pumpstation between 1992 and 2020, burning about 335 acres in total. 13 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	13
Recreation and ceremony	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Debris and open burning	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
22 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	DAM FIRE
13 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	136 acres	Silver Bow County	TUCKER CREEK
12 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Beaverhead County	DIVIDE
9 August 2008	Natural	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	SHEEP GULCH
8 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	FLEECER
6 August 2004	Natural	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	NEZ PIERCE
30 August 2008	Natural	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	SAWMILL
3 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	LAMARCHE GULCH

Every fire recorded in Silver Bow County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Big Hole Pumpstation: 9 occurrences, 6 unknowns, 6 past producers, 4 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Limestone, Dimension, Copper, Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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
Churchill Mine	Silver, Lead, Gold	Occurrence	Gold, Lead, Silver
Churchill Mine	Lead, Gold, Silver, Zinc	Occurrence
La Marche Creek	Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Fluorine-Fluorite	Past Producer
Limestone Occurrence	Calcium, Stone, Limestone, Dimension, Marble, Dimension, Magnesite	Unknown
Maiden Rock Silica	Stone	Producer
Star Group	Gold, Silver, Copper	Past Producer	Contact Metasomatic
Brown Claim Group	Fluorine-Fluorite	Occurrence	Contact Metasomatic
Brown Prospect	Fluorine-Fluorite	Unknown
Canyon Creek Quarry	Silica	Producer
Canyon Creek Quarry	Silica	Plant

Every working recorded in Silver Bow County

Storms near this property

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Divide, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 hail. 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 2008	Hail	Divide	-	A trained spotter reported nickel sized hail.

Every storm recorded in Silver Bow 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80002432 in Record Group 79.
Silver Bow County	All 24 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.