IOOF Hall and Fromberg Co-operative Mercantile Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“The IOOF Hall and Fromberg Co-operative Mercantile Building was built in 1906 at the west end of downtown Fromberg, Montana. It was the first brick building in Fromberg and served historically as a department store and as a meeting hall.”
Wikipedia article IOOF Hall and Fromberg Co-operative Mercantile Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 81 National Register listings published here for Carbon County · listed in 1993 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 123 W. River St., Fromberg, 59029
When was it listed? January 1993
Category. building
Also known as. Fromberg MPS
Census division. Fromberg-Bridger
National Register reference number. 92001778 - 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

20 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of IOOF Hall and Fromberg Co-operative Mercantile Building between 2001 and 2020, burning about 732 acres in total. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	3

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
22 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Carbon County	BLUE WATER
5 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Southern Land Office	235 LOWER RIVER RD
5 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Southern Land Office	824 COONEY DAM
4 August 2001	Natural	5.0 acres	Miles City Field Office	WHEAT
22 August 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Carbon County	19-9347
14 August 2006	Natural	30 acres	Custer Gallatin National Forest	CUTACROSS
23 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	110 acres	Southern Land Office	COW CREEK
2 July 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	274 acres	Billings Field Office	BLUEWATER

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Storms near this property

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fromberg, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2019: 7 hail, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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 2013	Flash Flood	Fromberg	-	There was a partial washout on Cherry Springs Road, as well as debris covering Selms Road.
May 2001	Hail	Fromberg	-	.88 inch hail reported by law enforcement.
May 2001	Hail	Fromberg	-	.75 inch hail...with hail 1 1/2 feet deep. Reported by spotters.
July 1999	Hail	Fromberg	-	Spotter report of hail as large as ping pong ball size.
July 1998	Hail	Fromberg	-	Dime to quarter sized hail reported.
July 2019	Hail	Fromberg	-	no account filed
July 2019	Hail	Fromberg	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Fromberg	-	no account filed

Every storm 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

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
Hester E. Suydam Boarding House	under 500 feet	1993
Dr. Theodore J. Benson House	under 500 feet	1993
Samuel Greenblatt House	under 500 feet	1993
Fromberg Methodist-Episcopal Church	under 500 feet	1993
John Gibson House	under 500 feet	1993
Baldwin Building	under 500 feet	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92001778 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.
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.