Cammock's Hotel

Built in 1920. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“Main St. in Lodge Grass, Montana, dates from 1920. Also known as the Old REA Building, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.”
Wikipedia article Cammock's Hotel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Big Horn County · listed in 1987 · category: Building · built in 1920.

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. 28 N. Main St., Lodge Grass, 59050
When was it listed? August 1987
Category. building
Also known as. Lodge Grass MRA
Census division. Crow Reservation
When was it built? 1920
National Register reference number. 87001271 - 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

328 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 328 fires within 5 miles of Cammock's Hotel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,177 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 36 were 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
Debris and open burning	73
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	70
Fireworks	40
Arson/incendiarism	36
Railroad operations and maintenance	26
Equipment and vehicle use	22
Natural	16
Misuse of fire by a minor	14
Smoking	14
Other causes	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Recreation and ceremony	3

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
8 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	22 acres	Crow Agency	IRON HORSE
8 September 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	225 acres	Crow Agency	SUNDAY CRK
8 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Crow Agency	SLASH
8 September 1995	Smoking	1.5 acres	Crow Agency	ANDY FIRE
7 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Crow Agency	528
7 September 2002	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Crow Agency	WARD
6 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Crow Agency	FALLSDOWN
6 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Crow Agency	ROADSIDE

Every fire recorded in Big Horn County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cammock's Hotel: 1 unknown. 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Gravel Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Big Horn County

Storms near this property

28 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lodge Grass, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1993 and 2021: 14 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 4 heavy rain, 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 1993	Hail	Lodge Grass	$5,000	no account filed
July 2019	Hail	Lodge Grass	-	The hail covered the ground.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Lodge Grass	-	Tree limbs 1 to 1 1/2 inch in diameter were broken off trees.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Lodge Grass	-	A wind gust of 58 mph was reported 9 miles east of Lodge Grass.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Lodge Grass	-	A semi-trailer was flipped on I-90.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Lodge Grass	-	An estimated wind gust of 60 mph was reported 2 miles west of Lodge Grass.
June 2007	Heavy Rain	Lodge Grass	-	Rain from the event was 2.57 inches in 24 hours.
May 2005	Heavy Rain	Lodge Grass	-	1.28 inches of rain 5E Lodge Grass (Wolf Mountain RAWS 24-hour total)
May 2005	Heavy Rain	Lodge Grass	-	3.67 inches of rain fell 9E Lodge Grass (24-hour total from the Wolf Mountain RAWS)
May 2005	Heavy Rain	Lodge Grass	-	4.08 inches of rain 9E Lodge Grass (Wolf Mountain RAWS 2-day total)
June 2004	Hail	Lodge Grass	-	Mile post 519 on I-90
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Lodge Grass	-	Wind damage. Gustnado ahead of storm downed a few trees.
May 2001	Wildfire	Lodge Grass	-	Corral Creek 2 wildfire burned approximately 400 acres east of Lodge Grass Montana.
May 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Lodge Grass	-	no account filed
May 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Lodge Grass	-	no account filed
July 2019	Hail	Lodge Grass	-	no account filed
June 2019	Hail	Lodge Grass	-	no account filed
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Lodge Grass	-	no account filed
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Lodge Grass	-	no account filed
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Lodge Grass	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Lodge Grass	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Lodge Grass	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Lodge Grass	-	no account filed
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Lodge Grass	-	no account filed
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Lodge Grass	-	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	Lodge Grass	-	no account filed
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Lodge Grass	-	no account filed
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Lodge Grass	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Big Horn 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
George Pease's Second Store	under 500 feet	1987
Lodge Grass Merchandise Company Store	under 500 feet	1987
J. W. Drew Grain Elevator	under 500 feet	1987
Lodge Grass City Jail	under 500 feet	1987
Jay Sharp's Store	under 500 feet	1987
John Ryan's House	0.1 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87001271 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Big Horn County	All 38 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.