Sandstone and Cobblestone Schools

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“The Sandstone and Cobblestone Schools, a complex of two school buildings in Absarokee, Montana, on Main St. and at 142 S. The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.”
Wikipedia article Sandstone and Cobblestone Schools, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Stillwater County · listed in 1987 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Main St., Absarokee, 59001
When was it listed? January 1987
Category. building
Census division. Absarokee
National Register reference number. 86002949 - 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

8 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Sandstone and Cobblestone Schools between 2017 and 2020, burning about 3 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	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Stillwater County	FIRE 1052
2 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Stillwater County	BUCK CREEK RD
1 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Stillwater County	19-7072
8 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Southern Land Office	PILE
26 July 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Southern Land Office	BROKEN HORN
26 June 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Southern Land Office	16 BUCK CREEK
10 June 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Stillwater County	19-5041
20 May 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Southern Land Office	225 SOUTH MONTANA AVE

Every fire recorded in Stillwater 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 Sandstone and Cobblestone Schools: 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unnamed Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unnamed Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unnamed Gravel Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Stillwater County

Storms near this property

18 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Absarokee, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 7 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 2 flash flood. 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
March 2019	Flood	Absarokee	$804,000	Many roads along the foothills were washed out or severely damaged due to rain and snowmelt on top of ground that remained frozen. Approximately 12 roads were damaged, 9 of which had to be closed. The county applied for a disaster declaration due to the extent of the damage. Damage amounts totaled $804,387.00.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Absarokee	$25,000	A strong microburst knocked down two 50 foot cottonwood trees. One tree hit power lines and cut power to two houses. The gusty winds caused considerable crop damage near Absarokee. Some minor damage was sustained by homes and businesses.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Absarokee	-	Winds gusted to 58 mph near Fishtail.
June 2023	Flash Flood	Absarokee	-	Law enforcement reported flooding in Absarokee.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Absarokee	-	A wind gust of 58 mph was recorded 12 miles south of Columbus.
May 2018	Flash Flood	Absarokee	-	Very heavy thunderstorms produced 2 to 4 inches of rain in a short period of time across the area. There were numerous reports of water flowing down and across roads, as well as a mud slide along portions of the Stillwater River Road between Columbus and Absarokee.
March 2014	Flood	Absarokee	-	County officials reported that some streams and creeks were running high, and in some areas, water was running over roadways and flooding fields. Some roads became impassable.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Absarokee	-	Uprooted evergreen tree and awning blown off house
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Absarokee	-	Co-op Observer driving northeast of Absarokee noticed numerous tree limbs down along highway 78.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Absarokee	-	Heavy lawn furniture tossed from deck
June 2001	Hail	Absarokee	-	1.25 inch hail. Hailstorm lasted from 7:05 pm to 713 pm.
September 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Absarokee	-	no account filed
August 2024	Hail	Absarokee	-	no account filed
July 2018	Hail	Absarokee	-	no account filed
July 2018	Hail	Absarokee	-	no account filed
August 2005	Hail	Absarokee	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Absarokee	-	no account filed
July 1996	Hail	Absarokee	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stillwater 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

2 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
	Oliver H. Hovda House	0.9 miles	1984
	Halfway House	6.8 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86002949 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Stillwater County	All 16 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.