Raymond Grain Elevators Historic District

Built in 1913. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“The Raymond Grain Elevators Historic District is a 6 acres (2.4 ha) historic district near Raymond, Montana with six contributing buildings which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.”
Wikipedia article Raymond Grain Elevators Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Sheridan County · listed in 1993 · category: District · built in 1913.

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 5 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Unnamed Co. Rd. E of MT 16, NE of Raymond, Raymond, 59256
When was it listed? October 1993
Category. district
Also known as. Sheridan County MPS
Census division. Plentywood
When was it built? 1913
National Register reference number. 93001148 - 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

4 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Raymond Grain Elevators Historic District in 2017, burning about 11 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
9 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Northeastern Land Office	not named
28 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.5 acres	Northeastern Land Office	not named
11 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	4.5 acres	Northeastern Land Office	not named
10 April 2017	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Northeastern Land Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Sheridan County

Storms near this property

13 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Raymond, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 7 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Raymond	-	Public reported, via Facebook, pictures of two power poles that were snapped at the base. \|There were 8 more power poles knocked down. Times are estimated.
June 2020	Heavy Rain	Raymond	-	Public reported, via Facebook, that 3.50 inches of rain fell in 90 minutes, at 4 N Raymond.
June 2012	Hail	Raymond	-	Pea to quarter size hail fell, with wind gusts of of 40 to 50 mph.
July 2007	Hail	Raymond	-	The hail covered the ground and lasted about 10 minutes. The size of the hail ranged from pea to quarter. Estimated that one inch of rain fell in 20 minutes.
July 2007	Hail	Raymond	-	The hail ranged in size from dime to penny.
July 2007	Hail	Raymond	-	The hail ranged in size from pea to quarter.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Raymond	-	60 mph wind reported by U.S. Customs official at the Port of Raymond.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Raymond	-	no account filed
July 2007	Hail	Raymond	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Raymond	-	no account filed
July 1998	Hail	Raymond	-	no account filed
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Raymond	-	no account filed
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Raymond	-	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 record	The nomination case file for reference 93001148 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sheridan County	All 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.