Caroline Lockhart Ranch

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

“The Caroline Lockhart Ranch was established in 1926 by Caroline Lockhart, who purchased a 160-acre (65 ha) homestead near Davis Creek at the foot of the Pryor Mountains in Carbon County, Montana, while in her fifties. Lockhart expanded the ranch, adding buildings, land and grazing rights until the ranch comprised about 7,000 acres (2,800 ha).”
Wikipedia article Caroline Lockhart Ranch, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 81 National Register listings published here for Carbon County · listed in 1989 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 14 buildingss, 4 sitess as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Lockhart, Caroline, Ranch - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Davis Creek, 70 mi. S of Hardin, Dead Hill, 59014
When was it listed? November 1989
Category. building
Census division. East Carbon
National Register reference number. 89000155 - 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

34 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Caroline Lockhart Ranch between 1992 and 2020, burning about 312 acres in total. 27 started naturally. 1 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	27
Recreation and ceremony	2
Other causes	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
7 August 2001	Natural	under an acre	Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area	BIKER
6 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area	HOLLIS
5 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Crow Agency	not named
30 August 1996	Natural	under an acre	Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area	CONFLUENCE
29 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area	DOUBLETREE
29 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area	A TEAM
28 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area	DAVIS CRK
28 August 1994	Natural	2.5 acres	Crow Agency	not named

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Caroline Lockhart Ranch: 3 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Gold, Stone, Semiprecious Gemstone. 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
Big Horn Placer	Gold	Unknown
Deadman Quarry	Stone	Producer
Dryhead Agate Mine	Semiprecious Gemstone	Producer
Unknown	Uranium	Producer	Vein
Unnamed Uranium	Uranium	Occurrence
Unnamed Uranium	Uranium	Occurrence

Every working 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

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Cedarvale	2.9 miles	1975
Ewing-Snell Ranch	3.9 miles	1977
Bad Pass Trail	6.1 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 89000155 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.