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Outlook Depot

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“Outlook station is a railway depot in Outlook in Sheridan County, Montana which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993 as the Outlook Depot. It has also been known as Soo Line Depot.”

Wikipedia article Outlook station (Montana), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Sheridan 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. S of western edge of Marr St., S of Block 10, Outlook, 59252
  • When was it listed? October 1993
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Sheridan County MPS
  • Census division. Plentywood
  • National Register reference number. 93001144 - 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

1 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Outlook Depot in 1999, burning about 6,952 acres in total. None 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
Railroad operations and maintenance1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
31 October 1999Railroad operations and maintenance6,952 acresNortheastern Land OfficeOUTLOOK

Every fire recorded in Sheridan County

Storms near this property

21 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Outlook, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 18 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 wildfire. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 1999WildfireOutlook$6,000,000no account filed
August 2005HailOutlook$15,000Three vehicles had broken windows. The metal roof of a building was damaged.
August 2006HailOutlook$2,000Several windows were broken along with a skylight.
July 2006HailOutlook$2,000Two windows were smashed on a house and some barn windows were broken. Roof and shingle damage also occurred and there was significant crop damage.
August 2024HailOutlook-Public reported hail up to the size of golf balls.
August 2024HailOutlook-Public reported, via Facebook, hail up to the size of hen eggs.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindOutlook-Public reported, via Facebook, a 79 mph thunderstorm wind gust measured on a Davis weather station.
June 2021HailOutlook-Public reported hail up to the size of quarters.
June 2020HailOutlook-Trained spotter reported half-dollar size hail. Time estimated from radar.
June 2020HailOutlook-Trained spotter reported quarter size hail.
June 2020HailOutlook-Trained spotter reported golf ball size hail.
July 2019HailOutlook-Trained spotter reported hail up to the size of quarters.
July 2017HailOutlook-Public reported, via social media, quarter sized hail.
August 2011HailOutlook-Spotter reported hail stones up to the size of nickels.
August 2011HailOutlook-Sheridan County Sheriff reported ping pong ball-sized hail stones.
August 2010HailOutlook-Brief period of hail occurred.
July 2006HailOutlook-Mostly Penny sized hail, but also some half dollar sized.
July 2007HailOutlook-no account filed
July 2006HailOutlook-no account filed
August 2005HailOutlook-no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindOutlook-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sheridan 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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 93001144 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sheridan CountyAll 6 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.