Crail Ranch Buildings

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Historic Crail Ranch Buildings listed in the National Register of Historic Places are two rustic cabins, the remnants of a homestead dating to the late 1890s in Gallatin County, Montana in the area now known as Big Sky. The historic cabins are part of the Crail Ranch Homestead Museum, which depicts the homestead era in Big Sky from about 1896 to 1970 through displays of objects, photographs and documents on loan from a descendant of the original homesteaders.”
Wikipedia article Crail Ranch Buildings, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 104 National Register listings published here for Gallatin County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.

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 2 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Meadow Village, Gallatin Gateway, 59716
When was it listed? April 1982
Category. building
Census division. Big Sky
National Register reference number. 82003167 - 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

38 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Crail Ranch Buildings between 1992 and 2020, burning about 714 acres in total. 14 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	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Debris and open burning	3
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Fireworks	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
8 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	LOW DOG
29 September 2008	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Custer Gallatin National Forest	SPANISH PEAKS
23 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	CRENSHAW BRIDGE
16 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	BIG SKY
15 September 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	LONE PEAK
12 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	SHACK
10 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	YELLOW MOUNTAIN
7 August 2016	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	PANCAKE

Every fire recorded in Gallatin County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Crail Ranch Buildings: 9 occurrences, 4 prospects, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Asbestos, Phosphorus-Phosphates. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Beehive Basin	Mica	Unknown
Last Chance Prospect	Copper, Gold, Silver	Occurrence
Last Chance Prospect	Iron	Prospect
Moon Lake Kyanite	Kyanite, Garnet	Occurrence
Table Mountain Prospect	Chromium, Asbestos	Occurrence	Vein
W. Fork-Gallatin River Phosphate	Phosphorus-Phosphates	Occurrence
Moon Lake Asbestos	Asbestos	Prospect
Moon Lake Asbestos Deposit	Asbestos	Occurrence	1892
Unidentified Copper Occurrence	Copper	Occurrence	Vein
Unidentified Occurance	Copper	Occurrence	Malachite

Every working recorded in Gallatin County

Storms near this property

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gallatin Gateway, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2008 and 2020: 5 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2020	Hail	Gallatin Gateway	-	Quarter size hail reported via twitter.
July 2020	Hail	Gallatin Gateway	-	Member of public relayed report of quarter size hail via mPing.
July 2020	Hail	Gallatin Gateway	-	Member of public reported quarter size hail via twitter.
June 2010	Hail	Gallatin Gateway	-	A thunderstorm dropped 1.25 inch diameter hail at Gallatin Gateway 6E.
July 2010	Hail	Gallatin Gateway	-	A thunderstorm dropped 1.5 inch diameter hail at Gallatin Gateway 10S.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Gallatin Gateway	-	A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 61 mph at Gallatin Gateway 5E.

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

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	Property	Distance	Listed
	B-K Ranch	0.7 miles	2006

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82003167 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Gallatin County	All 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.