Cooke City Store

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

One of 35 National Register listings published here for Park County · listed in 1986 · 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. Main St., Cooke City, 59020
When was it listed? March 1986
Category. building
Census division. Gardiner-Cooke City
National Register reference number. 86000527 - 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

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Cooke City Store between 1995 and 2017, burning about 215 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
Natural	6
Recreation and ceremony	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
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
23 September 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	MINERAL
15 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	OVIS LAKE
12 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	CHIMNEY ROCK
31 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	MILLER CREEK
30 August 2009	Natural	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	MERIDIAN
18 August 2012	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	BROADWATER
16 August 1996	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	HENDERSON
10 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	MINERAL

Every fire recorded in Park County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 58 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 58 workings within 5 miles of Cooke City Store: 27 past producers, 22 prospects, 4 occurrences, 3 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Lead, Silver, Copper. 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	Recorded
Black Warrior	Silver, Lead, Gold	Past Producer
Bull Elk Lode	Lead, Gold, Silver, Zinc, Copper	Producer	1934
Bull Elk Lode	Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold	Unknown
Crown Butte and Melissa Mine	Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper	Past Producer
Fire Clay Claim	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Occurrence
Glengarry Mine	Silver, Copper, Gold	Occurrence	Contact Metamorphic
Homestake Mine	Gold, Copper, Manganese	Past Producer	1890
Josephine Lode	Lead, Gold, Silver	Prospect	1882
Lulu Extension Lode	Copper, Silver, Gold	Prospect	1917
Mohawk Warrior	Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Park County

Storms near this property

1 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cooke City, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2001: 1 wildfire. 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
August 2001	Wildfire	Cooke City	-	Monument WildernessDate Started: August 24, 2001Cause of Ignition: LightningLocation: 10 miles northwest of Cooke City, MontanaSize: 1660 acresContained: September 3rd, 2001Cost: $417,000

Every storm recorded in Park 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
	Northeast Entrance Station	3.8 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86000527 in Record Group 79.
Park County	All 35 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.