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Photograph of Graves Hotel
Photograph by Mike Cline, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Graves Hotel

Built in 1909 (Gothic Revival). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Graves Hotel was a historic hotel located at 106 South Central Avenue in Harlowton, Montana. Graves, a leading figure in Harlowton's early development, had the hotel built in 1909; it was one of the first businesses to be built after a fire destroyed much of downtown Harlowton in 1907.”

Wikipedia article Graves Hotel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 2 National Register listings published here for Wheatland County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1909, Gothic Revival.

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. 106 S. Central Ave., Harlowton, 59036
  • When was it listed? August 1980
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Harlowton
  • When was it built? 1909
  • Architectural style. Gothic Revival
  • National Register reference number. 80002434 - 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

4 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Graves Hotel between 2016 and 2020, burning about 5 acres in total. None 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/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
18 July 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNortheastern Land Officenot named
16 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresWheatland CountyCLYDE MA
6 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouthern Land OfficeSELKIRK
16 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNortheastern Land Officenot named

Every fire recorded in Wheatland County

Storms near this property

53 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harlowton, the town this property stands in, in 53 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 37 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 funnel cloud, 2 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1994HailHarlowton$5,000no account filed
June 2025HailHarlowton-Two inch hail reported.
June 2025HailHarlowton-One point five inch hail reported.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindHarlowton-EM report of multiple structures with lost roofs, uprooted trees as well as tree limb damage.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindHarlowton-Corrects previous non-tstm wind dmg report from Harlowton. Power lines down with some power outages reported.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindHarlowton-Power lines and a shed were blown down in Harlowton.
June 2005HailHarlowton-Nickel to quarter size hail
August 2002Flash FloodHarlowton-Water was running across Old Dump Road. Road closed for 2 hours.
May 2001HailHarlowton-1.00 inch diameter hail reported near Harlowton. Some areas the hail was 2-3 inches deep. Small tree branches and leaves were stripped from the trees.
May 2001HailHarlowton-1.00 inch diameter hail covered the ground 2 to 3 inches deep. Reported by County Emergency Management.
August 1999Funnel CloudHarlowton-Wheatland sheriff dispatch reported two funnel clouds.
August 1999Tornado (F0)Harlowton-A driver on U.S. Highway 191 and an amateur radio operator reported a thin rope like tornado that was on the ground over rural areas for around 15 minutes.
June 1999HailHarlowton-Spotter report of dime size hail.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindHarlowton-Spotter estimated 60 mph wind gust. Some power lines were downed in Harlowton and in Shawmut.
June 1999HailHarlowton-Spotter report of dime size hail.
August 1999HailHarlowton-Spotter report of dime size hail.
July 1998Flash FloodHarlowton-A slow moving thunderstorm with heavy rain produced water up to a foot deep 6 miles east of Harlowton on Highway 12.
July 2022HailHarlowton-no account filed
July 2022HailHarlowton-no account filed
July 2022HailHarlowton-no account filed
July 2022HailHarlowton-no account filed
July 2022HailHarlowton-no account filed
July 2022HailHarlowton-no account filed
September 2022Thunderstorm WindHarlowton-no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindHarlowton-no account filed
July 2020Thunderstorm WindHarlowton-no account filed
June 2017HailHarlowton-no account filed
July 2013HailHarlowton-no account filed
May 2012Thunderstorm WindHarlowton-no account filed
August 2009HailHarlowton-no account filed
August 2009HailHarlowton-no account filed
June 2005HailHarlowton-no account filed
June 2003HailHarlowton-no account filed
April 2002Thunderstorm WindHarlowton-no account filed
June 2001HailHarlowton-no account filed
June 2001HailHarlowton-no account filed
June 2001HailHarlowton-no account filed
June 2001HailHarlowton-no account filed
July 2001HailHarlowton-no account filed
July 2001HailHarlowton-no account filed
July 2001HailHarlowton-no account filed
July 2001HailHarlowton-no account filed
July 2000HailHarlowton-no account filed
July 2000HailHarlowton-no account filed
June 1998Funnel CloudHarlowton-no account filed
July 1998Funnel CloudHarlowton-no account filed
June 1997HailHarlowton-no account filed
June 1997Funnel CloudHarlowton-no account filed
June 1997HailHarlowton-no account filed
July 1996HailHarlowton-no account filed
June 1995HailHarlowton-no account filed
June 1995HailHarlowton-no account filed
June 1995HailHarlowton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wheatland 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

1 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
Milwaukee Road Historic District0.5 miles1988

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80002434 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wheatland CountyAll 2 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.