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Trident School

Built in 1911. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.

From the record

“The Trident School, located south of Trident, Montana, was built in 1911. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.”

Wikipedia article Trident School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 104 National Register listings published here for Gallatin County · listed in 1981 · category: Building · built in 1911.

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. S of Trident, Trident, 59752
  • When was it listed? July 1981
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. One Room Schoolhouses of Gallatin County TR
  • Census division. Three Forks
  • When was it built? 1911
  • National Register reference number. 81000364 - 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

16 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Trident School between 2004 and 2020, burning about 8,307 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Natural2
Debris and open burning2

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
3 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFergus County201056
3 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Land Officenot named
1 September 2018Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreCentral Land Officenot named
27 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGallatin Countynot named
19 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGallatin County202063
17 August 2020Naturalunder an acreGallatin County202062
17 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresBroadwater CountyEUSTICE
16 August 2018Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreCentral Land Officenot named

Every fire recorded in Gallatin County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Trident School: 9 occurrences, 5 prospects, 3 producers, 2 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Copper, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper, Silver, Silver, Lead, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Copper CityIron, CopperProspect1880
Copper City MineCopper, Gold, SilverPast Producer
Copper King LodeCopper, Gold, SilverOccurrence
Copper Queen LodeGold, Copper, SilverOccurrence
Kanta PitStone, Crushed/Broken, AluminumProducer
New York LodeGold, Silver, ZincProspect
Pennsylvania MineCopper, Silver, GoldProspect1885
Silica QuarryStoneProducer
Silver King LodeCopper, Silver, GoldOccurrence
Trident Cement QuarryLimestone, General, ClayPlant

Every working recorded in Gallatin County

Storms near this property

1 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Trident, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2003: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2003HailTrident-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gallatin 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Three Forks of the Missouri4.3 miles1966
Methodist Episcopal Church5.3 miles2000
Sacajawea Hotel5.3 miles1980
Adams Block5.4 miles1999
Ruby Theatre5.4 miles1982
Three Valleys State Bank5.4 miles2005

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 81000364 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Gallatin CountyAll 104 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.