Fort Shaw Historic District and Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Cascade County · listed in 1985 · category: District.

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 8 sitess, 6 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1 mi. NW of Town of Fort Shaw, Fort Shaw, 59443
When was it listed? January 1985
Category. district
Census division. Sun River Valley
National Register reference number. 85000065 - 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

6 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Fort Shaw Historic District and Cemetery in 2017, burning about 1 acre 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	6

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
3 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Central Land Office	FORT SHAW
19 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Central Land Office	SUN RIVER
8 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Central Land Office	SIMMS
2 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Central Land Office	SIMMS
15 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Central Land Office	SIMMS
28 June 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Central Land Office	FORT SHAW

Every fire recorded in Cascade County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Fort Shaw Historic District and Cemetery: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Savoy Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Cascade 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
	J. C. Adam's Stone Barn	7.3 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85000065 in Record Group 79.
Cascade County	All 43 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.