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One of 104 National Register listings published here for Gallatin County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Little Bear School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Bear Creek Rd., Gallatin Gateway, 59730
- When was it listed? April 1982
- Category. building
- Also known as. One Room Schoolhouses of Gallatin County TR
- Census division. Gallatin Gateway
- National Register reference number. 82003168 - 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
26 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Little Bear School between 1994 and 2020, burning about 6 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 1 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 | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Custer Gallatin National Forest | LITTLE BEAR |
| 3 September 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Custer Gallatin National Forest | not named |
| 23 September 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Custer Gallatin National Forest | LITTLE BEAR PARTY FIRE |
| 23 September 2018 | Other causes | under an acre | Central Land Office | not named |
| 19 September 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Custer Gallatin National Forest | HOLLY |
| 12 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Custer Gallatin National Forest | RIDGEWALKER |
| 7 August 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Custer Gallatin National Forest | not named |
| 4 August 1994 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Custer Gallatin National Forest | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Little Bear School: 3 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Asbestos, Corundum, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Goose Creek Corundum | Corundum | Occurrence | ||
| Jefferson River Placers | Gold | Prospect | ||
| Unidentified Asbestos Occurrence | Asbestos | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Wilson Creek Asbestos | Asbestos | Occurrence |
Storms near this property
6 since 2008Regional 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. |
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
4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Gallatin Gateway Inn | 3.6 miles | 1980 |
| Anderson School | 4.7 miles | 1981 | |
| Cottonwood School | 6.3 miles | 1981 | |
| Shenango Work Station | 7.2 miles | 2022 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 82003168 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.