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Butte, Anaconda and Pacific Railway Historic District (Boundary Increase)

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

“The Butte, Anaconda and Pacific Railway Historic District is a 750 acres (300 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. It covers the railway right-of-way which begins in Butte, Montana and runs to Anaconda generally along the course of Silver Bow Creek.”

Wikipedia article Butte, Anaconda and Pacific Railway Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Silver Bow County · listed in 1989 · category: District.

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

The listing

Fires near this property

26 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Butte, Anaconda and Pacific Railway Historic District (Boundary Increase) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. 6 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 maintenance7
Recreation and ceremony6
Natural6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 2007Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreSouthwestern Land Officenot named
19 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthwestern Land OfficeWILLOW CREEK
15 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresSouthwestern Land Officenot named
15 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresSouthwestern Land Officenot named
3 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresCentral Land OfficeRESERVOIR FIRE
29 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouthwestern Land Officenot named
28 August 1996Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestRED GATE
14 August 2015Naturalunder an acreSouthwestern Land OfficeHIGH RYE

Every fire recorded in Silver Bow County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Butte, Anaconda and Pacific Railway Historic District (Boundary Increase): 5 occurrences, 3 past producers, 3 producers, 2 prospects. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Uranium, Antimony, Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Clay Deposit Near Miles CrossingAggregate, Light WeightOccurrenceUnconsolidated Sediments
Crackerville Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gregson Hot SpringsGeothermalProducer
Mooney ClaimUranium, AntimonyOccurrence1952
Mooney ClaimUraniumOccurrence
Powder GulchTitanium, Iron, REE, Thorium, ZirconiumProspect
Prices GulchGold, Tungsten, REE, ThoriumOccurrence
Silver Bow PlacerREEUnknown
Unnamed AluminumAluminumOccurrence
Beal Dyke PlacerSilver, GoldProducer

Every working 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

3 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Silver Bow Airway Beacon4.6 miles2019
Ramsay Historic District5.2 miles1988
Silver Bow Brewery Malt House7.2 miles1983

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 88003149 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Silver Bow CountyAll 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.