Joliet High School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

One of 81 National Register listings published here for Carbon 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., Joliet, 59041
When was it listed? May 1986
Category. building
Also known as. Joliet Montana MRA
Census division. Joliet
National Register reference number. 86000887 - 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

20 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Joliet High School between 2002 and 2020, burning about 264 acres in total. 7 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	10
Natural	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
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
6 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Southern Land Office	GRANITE
2 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Carbon County	10087 US HWY 212 1
7 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Carbon County	19-8637
7 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Billings Field Office	MONAHAN
2 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Southern Land Office	3825 TRAILMASTER DR
17 August 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Southern Land Office	18-9321
16 August 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Southern Land Office	CFS18-9277
30 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Southern Land Office	9800 HWY 212

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Storms near this property

20 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Joliet, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 16 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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 2025	Hail	Joliet	-	Image on Facebook shows hailstone sightly smaller than a tennis ball.
May 2001	Flash Flood	Joliet	-	Flooding of low lying roads and fields. Reported by spotters.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Joliet	-	Wind damage. Roof blown off house and chicken coop blown over
July 2001	Heavy Rain	Joliet	-	0.3 inches of rain in 30 minutes
August 1999	Hail	Joliet	-	Dime size hail reported.
June 2018	Hail	Joliet	-	no account filed
June 2018	Hail	Joliet	-	no account filed
June 2018	Hail	Joliet	-	no account filed
May 2016	Hail	Joliet	-	no account filed
June 2013	Hail	Joliet	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Joliet	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Joliet	-	no account filed
July 2005	Hail	Joliet	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Joliet	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Joliet	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Joliet	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Joliet	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Joliet	-	no account filed
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Joliet	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Joliet	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carbon 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
Joliet Bridge	0.1 miles	1986
House on Railroad Avenue	0.2 miles	1986
Joliet Residential Historic District	0.2 miles	1986
Baker and Lovering Store	0.2 miles	1986
Rock Creek State Bank	0.3 miles	1986
Fire Hall	0.3 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86000887 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.
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.