BlockFrom the record
One of 43 National Register listings published here for Cascade County · listed in 1982 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Robert Vaughn Homestead
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
The listing
- Listed as. Vaughn, Robert, Homestead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. Vaughn Cemetery Rd. (Cascade County Rd.), Vaughn, 59487
- When was it listed? June 1982
- Category. district
- Census division. Sun River Valley
- National Register reference number. 82003160 - 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
10 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Robert Vaughn Homestead between 2017 and 2020, burning about 6 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/undetermined | 3 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Central Land Office | VAUGHN |
| 18 August 2017 | Other causes | 1.0 acres | Central Land Office | VAUGHN |
| 8 July 2020 | Fireworks | under an acre | Cascade County | LAUBACH FIRE |
| 4 July 2017 | Fireworks | 1.0 acres | Central Land Office | VAUGHN |
| 16 July 2020 | Smoking | under an acre | Cascade County | SLUICE BOX |
| 16 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Central Land Office | VAUGHN |
| 1 July 2017 | Fireworks | 1.0 acres | Central Land Office | VAUGHN |
| 29 June 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Cascade County | NEEL CREEK FIRE |
Storms near this property
26 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vaughn, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 13 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1998 | Tornado (F1) | Vaughn | $28,000 | 1 INCH HAIL |
| September 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vaughn | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 2023 | Funnel Cloud | Vaughn | - | Funnel cloud witnessed by NWS personnel and noted in a pilot report during a climb out of nearby Great Falls International Airport. Location estimated. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vaughn | - | Trained spotter reports an estimated wind gust of at least 70 mph. Time estimated by spotter. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Vaughn | - | Public report from MPING for 1 inch hail. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vaughn | - | Nws survey team determined damaging straight line winds with speeds of around 80 mph occurred across an area approx 1.7 miles long and 1.1 miles wide. Numerous wooden power poles snapped along i-15. Flattened grass and shrubs across the area. Pea size hail and water flooded local ditches and streams. Time based on radar. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vaughn | - | Numerous power poles snapped along I-15. Pea size hail and water filling the ditch. Time/location estimated. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Vaughn | - | NWS Employee reported 1.5 inch hail 3 miles NNW of Vaughn. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Vaughn | - | Storm chaser submitted photos of very large hail along Interstate 15. Largest stone measured was 2.25 inches. Traffic on Interstate 15 was brought to a halt. Hail lasted for 10 minutes. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Vaughn | - | Public reports 1.25 inch diameter hail. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vaughn | - | Spotter estimated a peak gust of 60-mph from virga. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Vaughn | - | Trained spotter reported quarter size hail. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Vaughn | - | Hail measuring 1.75 inches was reported in Vaughn, MT. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Vaughn | - | Severe hail measuring 1.00 inches (approximately quarter sized) was reported 2 miles W of Vaughn, MT. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Vaughn | - | Golf ball sized hail, measuring 1.75 inches, was reported 8 miles NW of Vaughn. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Vaughn | - | Quarter sized hail, measuring 1.00 inches, was reported at Sun Prairie. |
| March 2011 | Flood | Vaughn | - | Vaughn Frontage Road was closed from mile marker 0 to mile marker 1.7 due to flooding. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vaughn | - | A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 60 mph at Vaughn 3SE (Sun Prairie). |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vaughn | - | A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 60 mph at Vaughn. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vaughn | - | A severe thunderstorm produced a 65 mph wind gust at Vaughn 3S. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vaughn | - | Actual spotter designation is Power 6 SE. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vaughn | - | Actual spotter location is Vaughn 6 N. |
| August 1998 | Hail | Vaughn | - | BROKE WINDOWS AND DESTROYED CROPS |
| June 2003 | Hail | Vaughn | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Vaughn | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Vaughn | - | 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.
Listed places nearby
1 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | J. C. Adam's Stone Barn | 6.2 miles | 1979 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 82003160 in Record Group 79. |
| Cascade County | All 43 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.