St. Xavier Mission Church and Rectory

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Big Horn County · listed in 1990 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. On Big Horn River in the Crow Indian Reservation, St. Xavier, 59075
When was it listed? August 1990
Category. building
Census division. Crow Reservation
National Register reference number. 90001214 - 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

124 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of St. Xavier Mission Church and Rectory between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,898 acres in total. 29 started naturally. 9 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	39
Natural	29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Arson/incendiarism	9
Smoking	4
Fireworks	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
4 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Crow Agency	PAT
4 September 2001	Natural	40 acres	Crow Agency	S.ROHENGR
4 September 2001	Natural	150 acres	Crow Agency	WESTROTTEN
4 September 2001	Natural	3.0 acres	Crow Agency	EASTROTTEN
26 September 1992	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Crow Agency	not named
24 September 2012	Natural	1.0 acres	Crow Agency	HILL
23 September 2003	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Crow Agency	HEDOESIT
21 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Crow Agency	STRAW

Every fire recorded in Big Horn 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 St. Xavier Mission Church and Rectory: 6 unknowns. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90001214 in Record Group 79.
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.