Kevin Depot

Built in 1903. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“Kevin station, in Kevin, Montana, was built by the Great Northern Railroad in Kevin, Montana in 1903. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 as the Kevin Depot.”
Wikipedia article Kevin station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Toole County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1903.

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. Central Ave. and 1st St., Kevin, 59454
When was it listed? August 1980
Category. building
Census division. Sunburst
When was it built? 1903
National Register reference number. 80002433 - 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

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Kevin Depot between 1998 and 2019, burning about 26 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Fireworks	1
Natural	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
8 August 1998	Natural	20 acres	North Central Montana District	KEVIN RIMS
31 July 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Toole County	NEGU PLACE
2 July 2018	Fireworks	1.0 acres	Central Land Office	not named
15 May 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Toole County	GLEN HABETS
27 March 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	4.0 acres	Central Land Office	not named
1 November 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Central Land Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Toole County

Storms near this property

3 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kevin, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2017 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
June 2022	Heavy Rain	Kevin	-	Dw0975 Kevin.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Kevin	-	Mesonet station DW0975 near Kevin measured 58 mph wind gust.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Kevin	-	Trained spotter reported downed tree branches and a power outage.

Every storm recorded in Toole 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 80002433 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Toole County	All 6 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.