Northeast Entrance Station

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“The Northeast Entrance Station to Yellowstone National Park, in Park County, Montana, is a rustic log building designed by the National Park Service Branch of Plans and Design under the direction of Thomas Chalmers Vint and built in 1935. A combined ranger station and residence is located nearby.”
Wikipedia article Northeast Entrance Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 35 National Register listings published here for Park County · listed in 1987 · category: Building · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. US 212, Yellowstone National Park, 59020
When was it listed? May 1987
Category. building
Census division. Yellowstone National Park
National Register reference number. 87001435 - 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

13 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Northeast Entrance Station between 1992 and 2017, burning about 2 acres in total. 9 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	9
Debris and open burning	2
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
24 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	PEBBLE
23 September 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	MINERAL
12 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	CHIMNEY ROCK
7 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	ABIATHAR
31 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	MILLER CREEK
30 August 2009	Natural	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	MERIDIAN
26 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	REPUBLIC
16 August 1996	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	HENDERSON

Every fire recorded in Park County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 45 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 45 workings within 5 miles of Northeast Entrance Station: 23 past producers, 14 prospects, 3 occurrences, 3 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Lead, Silver, Copper. 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	Recorded
Black Warrior	Silver, Lead, Gold	Past Producer
Bull Elk Lode	Lead, Gold, Silver, Zinc, Copper	Producer	1934
Bull Elk Lode	Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold	Unknown
Crown Butte and Melissa Mine	Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper	Past Producer
Fire Clay Claim	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Occurrence
Homestake Mine	Gold, Copper, Manganese	Past Producer	1890
Josephine Lode	Lead, Gold, Silver	Prospect	1882
Mclaren Mine	Copper, Gold, Silver	Producer	1933
Mohawk Warrior	Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer
Polar Star Lode	Silver, Copper, Lead	Prospect	1888

Every working recorded in Park 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

1 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
	Cooke City Store	3.8 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87001435 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Park County	All 35 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.