Upper Madison School

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. Buffalo Jump Rd., Three Forks, 59752
When was it listed? January 1983
Category. building
Also known as. One Room Schoolhouses of Gallatin County TR
Census division. Manhattan
National Register reference number. 83001068 - 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

4 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Upper Madison School between 2017 and 2020, burning about 4 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
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
13 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Hill County	201060
7 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Central Land Office	AMSTERDAM
17 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Gallatin County	YOGO FIRE
12 August 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Central Land Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Gallatin County

Storms near this property

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Three Forks, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2011: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
June 2011	Flood	Three Forks	-	Flooding near Three Forks closed Old Town Road. Flooding also occurred in the Gallatin Canyon near Greek Creek campground. Parts of the Missouri Headwaters State Park and Drouillard Fishing access also closed due to flooding.
July 2010	Hail	Three Forks	-	A thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Three Forks 5NE.
August 2002	Hail	Three Forks	-	A severe thunderstorm produced 0.75 inch hail in Three Forks.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Three Forks	-	GIANT COTTONWOOD TREES DOWNED
July 1998	Hail	Three Forks	-	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

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
	Madison Buffalo Jump State Monument	3.5 miles	1970

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83001068 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.
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.