Carriage House Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“The Carriage House Historic District in Miles City, Montana was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. The historic district contained 54 contributing buildings and 21 non-contributing ones, on the 900 to 1100 blocks of Pleasant and Palmer Avenues and on cross streets.”
Wikipedia article Carriage House Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Custer County · listed in 1991 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Main, N. 9th, Palmer, N. 10th, Orr and N. 13th Sts. and Montana Ave., Miles City, 59301
When was it listed? June 1991
Category. district
Census division. Miles City
National Register reference number. 91000720 - 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 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Carriage House Historic District between 1998 and 2020, burning about 2,887 acres in total. 12 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	12
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Fireworks	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Recreation and ceremony	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 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Custer County	PIROGUE - CUSTER
6 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	281 acres	Miles City Field Office	OVERPASS
4 August 2007	Natural	100 acres	Miles City Field Office	SUNDAY AIRPORT
27 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Custer County	INTERSTATE - CUSTER
23 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Custer County	RANGER - CUSTER
21 August 1998	Natural	500 acres	Miles City Field Office	SMITH CRK
19 August 2007	Natural	44 acres	Eastern Land Office	not named
13 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Miles City Field Office	2019 MCC FIRE SUPPORT

Every fire recorded in Custer County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Carriage House Historic District: 1 occurrence, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Platinum, Silver, 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	Recorded
Eckart Portable Crusher	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Miles City	Gold, Platinum	Occurrence	Stream Placer
Yellowstone Hill Pit and Plant	Silver	Producer

Every working recorded in Custer County

Storms near this property

60 of 179 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Miles City, the town this property stands in, in 179 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 90 hail, 68 thunderstorm wind, 14 flash flood, 3 flood. The reports record 5 injuries. 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
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Miles City	3 hurt	Several injuries occurred due to trees falling on them and vehicles. At least one person was hospitalized.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Miles City	2 hurt, $5,000	2 inch diameter hail. Crop and window damage. Foot of water over Frontage Road along Interstate 94. Interstate 94 closed for one hour due to water over the road. Car accident near mile marker 160 with two injuries.
July 1998	Flash Flood	Miles City	$1,000,000	Several streets were closed in Miles City because of flash flooding. Basements of several homes and businesses were flooded.
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Miles City	$180,000	The roof of a house was torn off by thunderstorm winds. Another house had part of it's roof torn off. A shed was also blown over and a garage was damaged. Several trees were blown down. Estimated damage was $180 thousand. Winds up to 50 mph were recorded at the airport around this time. The time is estimated.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Miles City	$60,000	Please see Episode Narrative.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Miles City	$60,000	Please see Episode Narrative.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Miles City	$50,000	Thunderstorm wind gusts of at least 48 mph caused several trees and a billboard to be blown down, a camping trailer to be blown over and some broken windows in and around Miles City.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Miles City	$10,000	11 telephone poles snapped from 1-mile wide microburst on Kinsey Road
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Miles City	$9,000	Thunderstorm winds damaged a porch and a garage at a residence 10 miles northeast of Miles City. Also, a mobile home was tipped over...crushing and killing a horse.
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Miles City	$5,000	no account filed
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Miles City	$2,000	Several trees downed
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Miles City	$2,000	Several large trees were knocked down in Miles City.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Miles City	$1,000	Window blown out of home
August 1993	Hail	Miles City	$500	no account filed
August 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Miles City	-	Tree downed into powerlines.
June 2025	Flood	Miles City	-	Widespread street flooding across the city. Lots of standing water under overpasses.
June 2025	Hail	Miles City	-	Facebook Report .
June 2025	Hail	Miles City	-	Hail report.
June 2025	Hail	Miles City	-	Report from mping.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Miles City	-	Tree and powerline damage, along with power outages, were reported throughout Miles City.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Miles City	-	Trees were uprooted and a roof was blown off a house.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Miles City	-	A large Cottonwood tree was downed.
May 2023	Flash Flood	Miles City	-	A RV Park flooded with water running across nearby roads, drainages and culverts. Some culverts were damaged.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Miles City	-	Tree damage was reported. A tree was snapped off at the base and uprooted. Multiple 4-12 inch diameter branches were broken.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Miles City	-	An 18 inch diameter, dead tree was snapped.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Miles City	-	Tree limbs of 3 to 4 inches in diameter were broken.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Miles City	-	Tree limbs 6 inches in diameter were broken.
May 2020	Hail	Miles City	-	A windshield was cracked.
May 2020	Hail	Miles City	-	The hail covered the ground.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Miles City	-	A tree was downed at Missouri and Fourth St in Miles City. The tree fell on and smashed a fence. Multiple branches with diameters of 3 to 4 inches were down in Riverside Park. In addition, a tree fell on and knocked a street light off a power pole on the 2100 block of Main Street. Other trees and branches with diameters of 6 inches were down across the city.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Miles City	-	A camper was damaged by a large tree branch that snapped.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Miles City	-	The very strong winds downed power lines across the Miles City area which sparked some grass fires. Power lines fell on one house causing it to catch fire. The house was reported to be totally destroyed. Most of Miles City was without power for a period of time.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Miles City	-	Wind damage occurred in the vicinity of Garry Owen/Spotted Eagle Roads, including a downed power line and downed trees. A few sheds were blown apart and a roof was blown off a shed.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Miles City	-	Tree limbs 3 to 4 inches in diameter were downed. In addition, golf ball to two-inch size hail was also reported.
June 2016	Hail	Miles City	-	Some windows were broken.
June 2014	Flash Flood	Miles City	-	Water was reported to be rushing down Main Street. Numerous secondary streets, as well as an underpass were flooded. In addition, areas of Miles City Community College were under water.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Miles City	-	Some five inch limbs were broken off trees resulting in minor tree damage around town.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Miles City	-	Six inch tree limbs were down across areas of Miles City.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Miles City	-	Plywood was peeled off a building under construction and thrown across main street in Miles City. Cars were damaged by debris at the Zip Trip.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Miles City	-	Estimated wind gusts of 60 mph were reported 2 miles south/southeast of Miles City. Trees of 6.5 in diameter were broken, as well as a 12 diameter by 7 foot long branch fell across a sidewalk. Traffic barriers were blown into a main street intersection. Many branches up to 3 in diameter were blown down. In addition, wide spread power outages were reported.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Miles City	-	A wind gust of 87 mph was measured by ASOS at Miles City.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Miles City	-	There were numerous reports from the public of wind damage, including car windows blown out in Miles City and along Highway 59 northwest of Miles City.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Miles City	-	Structural damage and power lines were down due to an 82 mph thunderstorm wind gust in Miles City.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Miles City	-	Numerous power outages were reported across the area.
June 2007	Flood	Miles City	-	People were flooded in their homes on Moon Creek Road west of Miles City. Four to six inches of water was over the road. Interstate 94 was flooded with cars washing off the road. A railroad was washed out by Hathaway.
June 2007	Flash Flood	Miles City	-	Eight tenths of an inch of rain was reported in 45 minutes.
June 2007	Flash Flood	Miles City	-	Interstate 94 had several areas with high water over the top. Interstate 94 at mile markers 124, 126, 129, and 132 had vehicles off the road. Flooding was also reported in Miles City.
June 2007	Flash Flood	Miles City	-	Water was reported over Highway 59 just south of Miles City.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Miles City	-	One foot diameter trees down.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Miles City	-	Numerous reports of downed trees and power lines...as well as car windows broken out due to large hail in Miles City between 330pm and 430pm MST.
June 2006	Hail	Miles City	-	Hail fell for 10 minutes.
June 2005	Flash Flood	Miles City	-	The underpass and the city library had minor flooding. In addition, some county roads had water running over them. A county road shoulder was washed out.
May 2005	Heavy Rain	Miles City	-	1.71 inches of rain (24 hour total)
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Miles City	-	Numerous trees down around Miles City, roof blown off at airport, windows damaged from wind at a home near the airport
June 2005	Hail	Miles City	-	Hail damage to mobile home near Kircher Creek from nickel to quarter size hail.
May 2005	Flash Flood	Miles City	-	Underpasses completely filled and some basements flooded in Miles City. Numerous roads impassible. Rainfall totals of 2.30 inches were reported by a spotter in Miles City. Water was reported flowing over Kinsey Road at times.
June 2005	Hail	Miles City	-	Some crop damage in the Miles City area from the combination of the hail and wind.
May 2005	Heavy Rain	Miles City	-	Significant flash flooding occurred in Miles City. The underpass completely filled all the way back to the high school, and some basements were flooded. Numerous roads were impassible. Rainfall totals as high as 3.5 inches in 3.5 hours near the fairgrounds.
May 2005	Heavy Rain	Miles City	-	2.30 inches of rain fell in less than six hours.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Miles City	-	1.00 inch hail and 55 mph winds resulting in broken out windows

Every storm recorded in Custer 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
William Harmon House	0.1 miles	1986
Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company	0.2 miles	1988
Ursuline Convent of the Sacred Heart	0.2 miles	1992
US Post Office-Miles City Main	0.3 miles	1986
Miles City Steam Laundry	0.3 miles	1979
Main Street Historic District	0.3 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91000720 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Custer County	All 18 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.