Hale's Filling Station and Grocery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“Hale's Filling Station and Grocery is a site on the National Register of Historic Places located in Roosevelt County, Montana. It was added to the Register on August 16, 1994.”
Wikipedia article Hale's Filling Station and Grocery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 2 National Register listings published here for Roosevelt County · listed in 1994 · 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

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Lanark Townsite, Bainville, 59218
When was it listed? August 1994
Category. building
Also known as. Roadside Architecture Along US 2 in Montana MPS
Census division. East Roosevelt
National Register reference number. 94000864 - 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 Hale's Filling Station and Grocery between 2017 and 2020, burning about 3 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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
28 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Roosevelt County	FDH-MTLG17-293
14 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Roosevelt County	FDH-MTLG17-147
27 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northeastern Land Office	not named
27 June 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Northeastern Land Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Roosevelt County

Storms near this property

34 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bainville, the town this property stands in, in 34 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 15 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 2 tornado, 2 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 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Bainville	$200,000	Thunderstorm wind gust blew the roof off of the Bainville School.
March 2003	Flash Flood	Bainville	$115,000	no account filed
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Bainville	$100,000	A squall line of dissipating storms moved east through the area between 1130 pm and 1230 pm. The outflow caused a microburst. The homeowner reported that the winds hit her home at about 1200 and 1205 am. She was not injured.\|A new modular home was slightly lifted and pushed back off its foundation. The house dropping back on the foundation and it caused the I-beams below the house to bend. The house was sitting on a very sturdy foundation, but it did not have any strapping to hold it to the foundation. There were two outbuildings significantly damaged as well.
June 2008	Hail	Bainville	$60,000	Hail fell in the parking lot of Fort Union damaging several vehicles including one broken side window.
July 1999	Tornado (F1)	Bainville	$20,000	no account filed
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Bainville	-	Public reported a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Bainville	-	Public reported, via Facebook, multiple cases of thunderstorm wind damage: A stock trailer was rolled into a creek bottom; some shingles were blown off a roof; a barn wall was damaged; and a quonset door was lost.
June 2021	Heavy Rain	Bainville	-	Public reported, via Facebook, 2.5 inches of rain.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Bainville	-	Public reported, via Facebook, a measured thunderstorm wind gust of 67 mph.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Bainville	-	Trained spotter reported a thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph. Time estimated.
October 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Bainville	-	At a personal home weather station, 3 WSW Bainville, a 59 mph wind gust was measured.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Bainville	-	Roosevelt County Emergency Manager reported ten to eleven empty BNSF train cars derailed.
July 2018	Hail	Bainville	-	Pubic reported, via social media, golf ball size hail.
July 2014	Hail	Bainville	-	Trained spotter reported quarter-sized hail.
May 2014	Hail	Bainville	-	Public reported pea-sized to quarter-sized hail with heavy rain.
August 2011	Hail	Bainville	-	Public reported golf ball-sized hail stones.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Bainville	-	Public estimated 60 mph winds.
July 1998	Flash Flood	Bainville	-	Main street flooded in Bainville.
September 1995	Tornado (F0)	Bainville	-	Two skywarn observers spotted a tornado moving through an open field.
August 2011	Hail	Bainville	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Bainville	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Bainville	-	no account filed
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Bainville	-	no account filed
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Bainville	-	no account filed
August 2005	Hail	Bainville	-	no account filed
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Bainville	-	no account filed
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Bainville	-	no account filed
July 1998	Hail	Bainville	-	no account filed
July 1998	Hail	Bainville	-	no account filed
August 1998	Hail	Bainville	-	no account filed
June 1997	Hail	Bainville	-	no account filed
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Bainville	-	no account filed
July 1997	Flood	Bainville	-	no account filed
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Bainville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Roosevelt 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 94000864 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Roosevelt County	All 2 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.