Ramsay Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Silver Bow County · listed in 1988 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. 6.5 mi. W of Butte on I 90, Butte, 59748
When was it listed? January 1988
Category. district
Census division. Butte-Silver Bow Northwest
National Register reference number. 87002227 - 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 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Ramsay Historic District between 1996 and 2020, burning about 202 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
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Natural	3
Recreation and ceremony	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
15 September 2000	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Southwestern Land Office	not named
15 September 2000	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	Southwestern Land Office	not named
28 August 1996	Natural	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	RED GATE
5 July 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	SOUP CAN
31 July 1996	Natural	1.0 acres	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	LONE TREE
16 July 2005	Natural	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	POWDER GULCH
6 May 1998	Railroad operations and maintenance	195 acres	Central Land Office	UP MMP 381
4 October 2020	Recreation and ceremony	2.8 acres	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	LONE PINE

Every fire recorded in Silver Bow County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 87 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 87 workings within 5 miles of Ramsay Historic District: 43 past producers, 20 occurrences, 12 unknowns, 8 prospects. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Manganese, Silver, Gold, Manganese, Silver. 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
Best Hope Mine	Gold, Lead, Manganese, Silver, Zinc	Unknown
Best Hope Mine	Lead, Zinc, Manganese, Gold, Silver	Producer
Bluebird	Silver, Zinc, Manganese, Lead	Unknown
Clay Deposit Near Miles Crossing	Aggregate, Light Weight	Occurrence	Unconsolidated Sediments
Clay Deposit Near the Tuxedo Mine	Brick Clay	Occurrence	Unconsolidated Sediments
Fluorite Mine	Fluorine-Fluorite, Gold, Silver	Producer	Fluorite
Gavin Placer	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Producer
Lavena Mine	Silver, Gold, Manganese	Past Producer	1958
Little Darling	Silver, Lead, Manganese, Zinc	Past Producer	Rhodochrosite, Rhodonite, Sphalerite
Moody Claim	Manganese, Silver, Copper	Past Producer	Cerargyrite, Malachite, Psilomelane, Pyrolusite, Wad

Every working recorded in Silver Bow County

Storms near this property

31 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Butte, the town this property stands in, in 31 storm reports between 1994 and 2019: 16 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 heavy rain, 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
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Butte	$50,000	no account filed
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Butte	$5,000	A tree fell on a house bringing damage to a power box. Another large tree fell and downed multiple power poles. The power outage affected 5000 homes.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Butte	$500	A newspaper in Butte reported that the top of an approximately 40 foot Ponderosa Pine tree fell over onto Park Street near the Montana Tech hill. Looking at the photo, the tree apparently fell towards the east direction.
August 2019	Hail	Butte	-	The spotter measured one inch hail in Butte.
August 2014	Hail	Butte	-	A trained spotter reported 1 size hail south of Butte.
July 2014	Hail	Butte	-	A trained spotter estimated that 1 hail fell during the thunderstorm.
July 2011	Hail	Butte	-	A trained spotter reported quarter sized hail.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Butte	-	Large trees fell across roadways and power lines were knocked down in portions of Butte. A few small grass fires were reported from the downed power lines.
August 2009	Heavy Rain	Butte	-	Seven thenths of an inch of rain fell in 24 minutes at Bert Mooney Airport.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	East Butte	-	The Elk Park Department of Transportation weather station measured a thunderstorm wind gust up to 69 mph.
August 2009	Heavy Rain	Butte	-	The Public Works Department reported .75 inch hail and estimated one inch of rain in about 30 minutes in Butte. Water was flowing down the streets.
August 2008	Hail	Butte	-	A trained spotter reported 0.5 to 0.75 inch hail.
August 2008	Hail	Butte	-	Police Officer reported to Silver Bow County Dispatch penny sized hail in downtown Butte.
May 2007	Hail	Butte	-	A member of the public phoned in a report of nickel-sized hail. The storm developed on the southeast side of Butte and tracked northeast along the Continental Divide.
July 1998	Flash Flood	Butte	-	Torrents of rain and hail fell on Butte in an hour-long thunderstorm which dumped over 2 inches of rain and hail over most of urban Butte. Blacktail Creek was over its banks in many areas. Silver Bow Creek, which normally has little or no water in the summer, was running like a river. Montana and Harrison Ave. streets were flooded and impassable during the peak of the storm. Debris from the hill washed down large rocks and boulders, which covered many of the streets in the up-town area. Underground power lines were washed out with residents without power for two to three days. Many private homes suffered flooded basements, yards and garages. Two trailer parks, located at the bottom of hills, suffered major damage. Centerville Volunteer Fire Dept. had major water damage.
August 2009	Hail	Butte	-	no account filed
August 2005	Hail	Butte	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Butte	-	no account filed
June 2004	Heavy Rain	Butte	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Butte	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Butte	-	no account filed
August 2001	Hail	Butte	-	no account filed
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Butte	-	no account filed
June 1997	Funnel Cloud	Butte	-	no account filed
July 1997	Hail	Butte	-	no account filed
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Butte	-	no account filed
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Butte	-	no account filed
July 1996	Flash Flood	Butte	-	no account filed
August 1996	Hail	Butte	-	no account filed
September 1995	Hail	Butte	-	no account filed
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Butte	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Silver Bow 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
Silver Bow Brewery Malt House	2.1 miles	1983
Silver Bow Airway Beacon	3.4 miles	2019
Butte, Anaconda and Pacific Railway Historic District (Boundary Increase)	5.2 miles	1989
Orphan Girl, Mineyard Headframe	5.8 miles	1966
Charles W. Clark Mansion	7.0 miles	1976
Shaffer's Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church	7.0 miles	2018

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87002227 in Record Group 79.
Silver Bow County	All 24 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.