Madison Hotel and Cafe

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

One of 104 National Register listings published here for Gallatin County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. 137 Yellowstone Ave., West Yellowstone, 59758
When was it listed? May 1983
Category. building
Also known as. West Yellowstone MRA
Census division. West Yellowstone
National Register reference number. 83001067 - 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

92 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Madison Hotel and Cafe between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,183 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 2 were 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
Recreation and ceremony	42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Smoking	8
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Natural	5
Fireworks	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Other causes	1
Debris and open burning	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
7 September 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	LITTLE
6 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	BAKERS HOLE
4 September 1998	Other causes	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	STATION
25 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	LAST
22 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	SEWAGE ROAD
2 September 2015	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	BIRD DOG
13 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	DUNRAVEN 2
11 September 2017	Smoking	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	CHURCH

Every fire recorded in Gallatin County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Madison Hotel and Cafe: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Geothermal. 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
	Bakers Hole Well	Geothermal	Producer
	Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Gallatin County

Storms near this property

5 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Yellowstone, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2003 and 2019: 2 wildfire, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 dust devil. 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
September 2003	Dust Devil	West Yellowstone	$3,000	no account filed
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	West Yellowstone	-	The public reported about two dozen large trees downed by thunderstorm winds at the KOA near West Yellowstone. Some tents and awnings were destroyed. Wind speed and time were estimated.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	West Yellowstone	-	no account filed
September 2003	Wildfire	West Yellowstone	-	no account filed
August 2003	Wildfire	West Yellowstone	-	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

3 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Kennedy Building	under 500 feet	1983
Union Pacific Dining Lodge	under 500 feet	1983
Eagle's Store	0.1 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83001067 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.