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One of 81 National Register listings published here for Carbon County · listed in 1984 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Red Lodge Commercial Historic District (Boundary Increase)
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 20 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Roughly Broadway from 8th to 13th Sts., Red Lodge, 59068
- When was it listed? May 1984
- Category. district
- Census division. Red Lodge
- National Register reference number. 84002456 - 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 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Red Lodge Commercial Historic District (Boundary Increase) between 1995 and 2019, burning about 2,322 acres in total. 6 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 | 7 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 2019 | Other causes | under an acre | Custer Gallatin National Forest | SILVER RUN |
| 9 August 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Custer Gallatin National Forest | DUTCH CREEK |
| 7 August 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Custer Gallatin National Forest | SKI RUN |
| 27 August 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,503 acres | Custer Gallatin National Forest | WILLIE |
| 21 August 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Custer Gallatin National Forest | FENCE POST |
| 14 August 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Custer Gallatin National Forest | PALISADES |
| 11 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Custer Gallatin National Forest | ANDERSON MUTUAL AID |
| 1 August 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Southern Land Office | ELK |
Mines and quarries near this property
8 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Red Lodge Commercial Historic District (Boundary Increase): 6 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, REE, Uranium, REE, Chromium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bay Horse | Silver, Gold | Prospect | ||
| Red Lodge | Chromium | Producer | Chromite, Magnetite | |
| Thom Property | REE, Uranium | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Thom Property | REE, Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| Unknown | Uranium | Occurrence | Stratabound | |
| Unnamed Uranium | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| Weaver Property | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| Weaver Property | Uranium | Occurrence |
Storms near this property
19 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Red Lodge, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 11 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 2 flash 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 | Wildfire | Red Lodge | $525,000 | Dry lightning set off a wildfire which burned 133 acres near the Parkside Campground in the Beartooth National Forest. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Red Lodge | $50,000 | A chemical storage shed was blown apart. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Red Lodge | - | Mostly pea to half inch hail with a few quarter size hailstones mixed in. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Red Lodge | - | Hail Report. |
| June 2022 | Flood | Red Lodge | - | Please see Episode Narrative for information regarding this multi-county historic flood event. |
| July 2013 | Flash Flood | Red Lodge | - | Streets flooded and manholes overflowed in downtown Red Lodge. |
| July 2011 | Flash Flood | Red Lodge | - | Red Lodge fire chief reported water one foot deep flowing down the streets. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Red Lodge | - | An estimated thunderstorm wind gust of 70 mph resulting in damage to a ranger station roof was reported in Red Lodge. |
| May 2005 | Heavy Rain | Red Lodge | - | 4.40 inches of rain 5W Red Lodge (Cole Creek Snotel 24-hour total) |
| May 2005 | Heavy Rain | Red Lodge | - | 6.99 inches of rain in Red Lodge |
| June 2004 | Hail | Red Lodge | - | Campground south of Red Lodge |
| May 1999 | Hail | Red Lodge | - | Golf ball size hail was reported by Carbon County Sheriff's dispatch. |
| August 2018 | Hail | Red Lodge | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Red Lodge | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Red Lodge | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Red Lodge | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Red Lodge | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Red Lodge | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Red Lodge | - | 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
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Lodge Commercial Historic District (Boundary Increase) | 0.2 miles | 1986 | |
| Yodeler Motel | 0.2 miles | 2014 | |
 | Calvary Episcopal Church | 0.2 miles | 1986 |
 | Warila Boarding House and Sauna | 0.2 miles | 1985 |
| Regis Grocery | 0.3 miles | 2024 | |
 | Red Lodge Commercial Historic District | 0.5 miles | 1983 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 84002456 in Record Group 79. |
| Carbon County | All 81 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.