Barrett Hospital

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Beaverhead County · listed in 1985 · 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. Chapman and S. Atlantic Sts., Dillon, 59725
When was it listed? January 1985
Category. building
Census division. Dillon
National Register reference number. 85000109 - 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 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Barrett Hospital between 1994 and 2018, burning about 8 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
Other causes	1
Fireworks	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
26 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Central Land Office	not named
11 August 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Central Land Office	HIGHWAY 278 MMP11
19 July 1994	Other causes	4.0 acres	Butte Field Office	LOVERS LEA
26 June 2018	Fireworks	1.0 acres	Central Land Office	not named
19 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Central Land Office	not named
21 March 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Central Land Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Beaverhead County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Barrett Hospital: 1 prospect, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Gold, Lead. 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
Bald Mountain	Silver, Gold, Lead	Prospect
Carl Robertson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
L S Ready Mix Concrete I	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Beaverhead County

Storms near this property

41 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dillon, the town this property stands in, in 41 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 15 thunderstorm wind, 15 hail, 3 tornado, 3 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
May 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillon	$500,000	Strong winds tore the roof off a building downtown. Yellowstone County Billings,19,1100MST,,,0,0,3,0,Lightning A sulfur storage tank was struck and caught fire.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillon	-	Ambient station Chicken Coop measured a severe gust.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillon	-	Estimated wind gust of 58 mph at an Ambient weather station, Chicken Coop.
September 2024	Hail	Dillon	-	A Facebook report was received from local media reporting 1 inch hail. Time of event was estimated.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillon	-	Trained spotter estimated 60 mph wind gust 5 miles WSW of Dillon.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillon	-	Estimated wind gust of 50 kts.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillon	-	Ambient weather station measured the gust.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillon	-	Spotter outside of Dillon reported estimated wind gusts of 60 mph.
August 2019	Hail	Dillon	-	A windshield was cracked by hail sized 1.75 inches in diameter.
July 2019	Heavy Rain	Dillon	-	Public reported .65 inches of rainfall in 15 minutes. This report was relayed by broadcast media. The time of event was estimated.
August 2019	Hail	Dillon	-	A member of the public posted an image of hail sized 1.25 inches in diameter to KXLF.
August 2019	Hail	Dillon	-	A trained spotter reports hail size of 1.5 inches in diameter.
September 2019	Funnel Cloud	Dillon	-	A funnel cloud was videotaped by a trained spotter at 4 WSW Dillon.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillon	-	Large healthy conifer tree downed at the roots in high winds from thunderstorm. Estimated peak gust of 60 mph.
July 2016	Funnel Cloud	Dillon	-	Multiple calls reporting a funnel cloud near Highway 278 west of Dillon.
July 2016	Tornado (EF0)	Dillon	-	Members of the public reported a tornado near Dillon. The tornado was short-lived and small.
July 2016	Hail	Dillon	-	A thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Dillon 4SSE.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillon	-	High winds measuring 50KT (58MPH) were reported at the Dillon Agrimet station.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillon	-	A thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 60 mph at Dillon 5NE (the Dillon ASOS site).
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillon	-	A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 60 mph at Dillon.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillon	-	A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 65 mph at Dillon.
July 2008	Hail	Dillon	-	A severe thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Dillon 4W.
July 2008	Flash Flood	Dillon	-	Heavy rain from thunderstorms caused many streets to fill with bumper deep water in the city of Dillon. Rainfall rates of greater than one-half inch in 15 minutes were common.
July 2008	Flash Flood	Dillon	-	Thunderstorms produced over six-tenths of an inch of rain in less than 20 minutes in Dillon. The resulting runoff caused water that was bumper deep on many streets in the city of Dillon.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillon	-	A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 67 mph at the Dillon ASOS site.
August 2007	Hail	Dillon	-	A severe thunderstorm dropped .88 inch diameter hail at Dillon 3N.
July 2007	Hail	Dillon	-	A severe thunderstorm dropped .88 inch diameter hail at Dillon 3N.
August 2007	Hail	Dillon	-	A severe thunderstorm dropped .88 inch diameter hail at Dillon. Brief heavy rain was also reported with water topping some curbs in town.
August 2007	Hail	Dillon	-	A severe thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Dillon 3N. Rainfall amounts of .61 inches was also reported.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillon	-	A severe thunderstorm produced a 64 mph wind gust at Dillon 35SW.
July 2002	Hail	Dillon	-	A severe thunderstorm produced 0.75 inch hail at Dillon 3N.
September 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillon	-	A severe thunderstorm produced a 70 mph wind gust in Dillon.
August 2002	Hail	Dillon	-	A severe thunderstorm produced 0.88 inch hail in Dillon.
August 2000	Wildfire	Dillon	-	Circle S fire, 444 acres burned, lightning caused.
July 2005	Flash Flood	Dillon	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Dillon	-	no account filed
August 1999	Hail	Dillon	-	no account filed
August 1999	Hail	Dillon	-	no account filed
July 1997	Funnel Cloud	Dillon	-	no account filed
July 1997	Tornado (F0)	Dillon	-	no account filed
September 1995	Tornado (F0)	Dillon	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Beaverhead 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

6 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
Montana State Normal School	0.1 miles	1980
Martin Barrett House	0.2 miles	1987
US Post Office-Dillon Main	0.6 miles	1986
Oregon Short Line Passenger Depot	0.6 miles	1990
Dillon City Library	0.7 miles	1978
Andrus Hotel	0.7 miles	2019

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85000109 in Record Group 79.
Beaverhead County	All 25 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.