BlockFrom the record
One of 38 National Register listings published here for Big Horn County · listed in 1981 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Lee Homestead
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.
The listing
- Address. NE of Decker, Decker, 59025
- When was it listed? July 1981
- Category. building
- Census division. Decker
- National Register reference number. 81000659 - 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
15 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Lee Homestead between 1994 and 2018, burning about 418 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 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 September 2017 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Miles City Field Office | BRAVO |
| 9 August 2008 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Miles City Field Office | TONGUE RIVER |
| 30 August 1996 | Natural | 1.5 acres | Miles City Field Office | RODEO |
| 3 August 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Miles City Field Office | SPRING CREEK |
| 20 August 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 220 acres | Miles City Field Office | MONUMENT |
| 19 August 1996 | Natural | 2.5 acres | Miles City Field Office | FOUR MI. |
| 5 July 1994 | Natural | 45 acres | Miles City Field Office | HOLLOW |
| 30 July 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Miles City Field Office | TONGUE RIVER |
Storms near this property
33 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Decker, the town this property stands in, in 33 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 14 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 3 deaths. 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 | Thunderstorm Wind | Decker | 2 killed | Two fatalities, both drownings, occurred from a severe thunderstorm that moved across the Tongue River Reservoir. A man fell from a dock and a woman drowned when her small boat capsized as a result of very strong thunderstorm winds. |
| July 1999 | Lightning | Decker | 1 killed | A 13 year old girl was stuck and killed by lightning on the Tongue River Reservoir. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Decker | $4,000 | Roof damage at Decker with thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Decker | - | A wind gust blew a camper off a pickup truck. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Decker | - | A pick up camper's hatch roof was ripped off during the storm. Winds were estimated at 65 to 80 mph. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Decker | - | A wind gust of 60 mph was estimated 5 miles north of the Tongue River Reservoir. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Decker | - | A wind gust of 60 mph was estimated just north of the Tongue River Reservoir. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Decker | - | Winds were estimated at 60 mph. Trees limbs were broken and leaves stripped. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Decker | - | An estimated thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph was reported 1 mile NNE of the Tongue River Reservoir. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Decker | - | Hail dented cars and cracked windshields. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Decker | - | Wind gusts were estimated at 50 mph. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Decker | - | 14 foot boat and trailer blown over |
| July 2001 | Flash Flood | Decker | - | 1 inch of rain in 20 minutes |
| July 2001 | Flash Flood | Decker | - | 145 feet of road bed washed out beneath the Burlington/Northern Railroad tracks...2 feet of water over the tracks |
| July 2001 | Flash Flood | Decker | - | 2-3 feet of water running over the road in town |
| July 2001 | Flash Flood | Decker | - | Gullies and valleys have torrential flow. Standing water over flat areas |
| July 2023 | Hail | Decker | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Decker | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Hail | Decker | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Hail | Decker | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Decker | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Decker | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Decker | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Decker | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Decker | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Decker | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Decker | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Decker | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Decker | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Decker | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Decker | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Flash Flood | Decker | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Decker | - | no account filed |
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 81000659 in Record Group 79. |
| Big Horn County | All 38 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.