Glidden House

Built in 1907 (Arts and Crafts movement). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“E St. in Bridger, Montana, was built during 1906-07. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.”
Wikipedia article Glidden House (Bridger, Montana), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 81 National Register listings published here for Carbon County · listed in 1987 · category: Building · built in 1907, Arts and Crafts movement.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 112 N. E St., Bridger, 59014
When was it listed? July 1987
Category. building
Also known as. Bridger MRA
Census division. Fromberg-Bridger
When was it built? 1907
Architectural style. Arts and Crafts movement
National Register reference number. 87001236 - 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

25 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Glidden House between 1996 and 2020, burning about 514 acres in total. 3 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	17
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
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
2 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Miles City Field Office	SAGE ASSIS
13 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Southern Land Office	310 HIGHWAY
9 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Billings Field Office	ROUND BUTTE
9 August 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Crow Agency	RESORT
5 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Southern Land Office	235 LOWER RIVER RD
4 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Southern Land Office	BRIDGER CEMETARY
28 August 1996	Railroad operations and maintenance	80 acres	Miles City Field Office	TRACK 28
22 August 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Carbon County	19-9347

Every fire recorded in Carbon 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 Glidden House: 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Limestone Occurrence	Limestone, Dimension	Occurrence
Unknown	Uranium	Occurrence
Unnamed Uranium	Uranium	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Carbon County

Storms near this property

21 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bridger, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 12 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 1 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
August 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridger	-	Tree damage, 2 large trees uprooted, grain silo destroyed. Very localized damage suggestive of a microburst. Gust estimated via damage information provided.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridger	-	Multiple pine trees were downed.
July 2018	Hail	Bridger	-	Some tree damage was reported.
June 2008	Hail	Bridger	-	Some crop damage was reported.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridger	-	South Bridger RAWS
June 2006	Hail	Bridger	-	10 to 15 minutes of hail
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridger	-	Roofing material ripped off house
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridger	-	2 inch diameter tree branches down
May 2001	Hail	Bridger	-	.88 inch hail reported by spotters
May 2001	Hail	Bridger	-	1.00 inch hail reported by spotters
July 2001	Heavy Rain	Bridger	-	1.5 inches of rain in 35 minutes with 2 inches of water over main street
July 2001	Heavy Rain	Bridger	-	1-2 inches of rain in 30 minutes
April 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridger	-	A spotter reported a 60 mph wind gust with a thunderstorm.
July 2018	Hail	Bridger	-	no account filed
July 2018	Hail	Bridger	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Bridger	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Bridger	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Bridger	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Bridger	-	no account filed
February 1997	Flood	Bridger	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Bridger	-	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
Corey House	under 500 feet	1987
Wool Warehouse	0.1 miles	1987
Bridger Opera House	0.2 miles	1987
Forsman House	0.2 miles	1987
Heatherington Boarding House	0.3 miles	1987
Glidden Mercantile	0.4 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87001236 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.
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.