Camp Four

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“Camp Four on Campbell Farm, about 12 miles (19 km) from Fort Smith, Montana, is nationally significant for its association with Thomas D. Campbell, "once the world's largest wheat farmer", and "a pioneer in industrialized corporate farming methods." It is the best preserved of two permanent camps, which along with six temporary camps, served the wheat farm during the period from 1918 to the 1960s.”
Wikipedia article Camp Four (Fort Smith, Montana), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Big Horn County · listed in 1992 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. 11 mi. NE of Fort Smith on Fort Smith--Hardin Co. Rd., Fort Smith, 59075
When was it listed? January 1992
Category. building
Census division. Crow Reservation
National Register reference number. 91001940 - 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

42 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Camp Four between 1993 and 2020, burning about 11,574 acres in total. 13 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
Equipment and vehicle use	19
Natural	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Recreation and ceremony	2
Debris and open burning	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	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
29 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	99 acres	Crow Agency	CAMP 4
21 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Crow Agency	RAYMOND 2
21 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Crow Agency	RAYMOND 3
21 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Crow Agency	RAYMOND 4
2 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Southern Land Office	HUNTER
14 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	145 acres	Crow Agency	HHYWAY 91
8 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Crow Agency	MM34
8 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Crow Agency	FENCE POST 2

Every fire recorded in Big Horn County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Camp Four: 2 occurrences, 1 unknown, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Pumice, 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
Pumice Occurrence	Pumice	Occurrence
Pumicite Occurrence	Pumice	Prospect
Yellowtail Dam Pumicite	Pumice	Occurrence

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.

Listed places nearby

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Bighorn Ditch Headgate	7.3 miles	1976
	Fort C. F. Smith Historic District	8.0 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91001940 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.