Madison County Fairgrounds

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Madison County · listed in 1984 · category: District.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. MT 41, Twin Bridges, 59754
When was it listed? August 1984
Category. district
Census division. Twin Bridges
National Register reference number. 84002500 - 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

5 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Madison County Fairgrounds between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning	2
Natural	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
15 September 2020	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Madison County	TB DUMP
28 July 2012	Natural	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	FOOTHILLS
24 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Madison County	JEFFERSON
21 May 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Madison County	HELLS CANYON
31 March 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Butte Field Office	PCB

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Madison County Fairgrounds: 4 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold. 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
Wooden Nickel	Gold	Past Producer
Unnamed Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unnamed Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unnamed Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unnamed Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this property

8 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Twin Bridges, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1995 and 2016: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2016	Funnel Cloud	Twin Bridges	-	Madison County Sheriff's Deputy reported seeing a funnel cloud near Twin Bridges.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Twin Bridges	-	Strong winds measuring 78KT (90MPH) were reported 2 miles ESE of Twin Bridges, MT. Five large trees were reported down as a result of the wind.
August 2013	Hail	Twin Bridges	-	Hail measuring 1.00 inches (quarter sized) was reported in Twin Bridges, MT. Trees reported down as well.
August 2013	Hail	Twin Bridges	-	Hail measuring 1.50 inches (ping pong ball sized) was reported in Twin Bridges, MT.
January 2009	Flood	Twin Bridges	-	An ice jam on the Ruby River just south of Twin Bridges (upstream of the Seyler Lane Bridge) caused minor flooding of low-lying areas. Pasture land and a few outbuildings were affected.
July 2005	Hail	Twin Bridges	-	no account filed
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Twin Bridges	-	no account filed
September 1995	Hail	Twin Bridges	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
	Doncaster Round Barn	2.2 miles	2015

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84002500 in Record Group 79.
Madison County	All 18 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.