Fort Peck Dam

Built in 1933. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Valley County · listed in 1986 · category: Structure · built in 1933.

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

The listing

Address. On the Missouri River, Fort Peck, 59223
When was it listed? August 1986
Category. structure
Also known as. Fort Peck MRA
When was it built? 1933
National Register reference number. 86002061 - 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

11 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Fort Peck Dam between 1994 and 2017, burning about 383 acres in total. 5 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	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Firearms and explosives use	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
1 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge	NATOUT1
31 August 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge	POWERHOUSE
11 August 2000	Natural	145 acres	Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge	SCOUT
4 July 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge	FLAT LAKE
24 July 2013	Natural	8.0 acres	Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge	HORSE PASTURE
11 July 2017	Natural	under an acre	Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge	TROPHY DOE
30 June 2003	Natural	under an acre	Miles City Field Office	ARTZ COULE
19 June 1997	Natural	3.0 acres	Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge	BEACH#1

Every fire recorded in Valley County

Storms near this property

4 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Peck, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1993 and 1995: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 1995	Hail	Fort Peck	$6,000	A sheriff's department vehicle had it's windshield broken when a hailstone ripped through it. Two other department vehicles were damaged by hail. Damage was estimated at $6000.
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Fort Peck	$5,000	There was lots of wind damage across Valley County. Several homes and trailers were damaged. A flash flood near Hinsdale washed out Highway 2 and the railroad.
August 1993	Hail	Fort Peck	$5,000	no account filed
August 1995	Tornado (F0)	Fort Peck	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Valley 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
Hospital	1.3 miles	1986
Administration Building	1.3 miles	1986
Employee's Hotel and Garage	1.4 miles	1986
Employee's Hotel and Garage	1.4 miles	1986
Garage and Fire Station	1.4 miles	1986
Fort Peck Original Houses Historic District	1.4 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86002061 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Valley County	All 15 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.