BlockFrom the record
One of 82 National Register listings published here for Lewis and Clark County · listed in 1995 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Stearns Hall
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.
The listing
- Address. 2 mi. N of jct. of MT 200 and Hwy. 434, Wolf Creek, 59648
- When was it listed? April 1995
- Category. building
- Census division. Augusta
- National Register reference number. 95000382 - 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
10 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Stearns Hall between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,942 acres in total. 2 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 | 6 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 228 acres | Central Land Office | PANAMA MA |
| 29 August 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Central Land Office | BESSETTE |
| 21 August 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Lewis & Clark County | HIGHWAY 434 MM 16 |
| 21 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 79 acres | Central Land Office | JEFFRIES CREEK MA |
| 2 August 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 619 acres | Central Land Office | WILSON MA |
| 3 July 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Central Land Office | GREEN CREEK |
| 15 July 2017 | Natural | 790 acres | Central Land Office | HIGHWAY 435 MA |
| 18 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Central Land Office | not named |
Storms near this property
20 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wolf Creek, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 8 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 wildfire, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wolf Creek | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Heavy Rain | Wolf Creek | - | Estimates an additional 0.5 inches fell since 9 AM. |
| June 2020 | Heavy Rain | Wolf Creek | - | Three-day rainfall report. Weather underground report. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wolf Creek | - | Estimated winds of at least 60 mph. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Wolf Creek | - | Hail estimated at 1.00 inches was visible on the Sieben Flats webcam 8 mi SW of Wolf Creek, MT. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wolf Creek | - | A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 60 mph at Wolf Creek 3NNE. |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wolf Creek | - | A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 60 mph at Wolf Creek 10NW. |
| May 2008 | Flood | Wolf Creek | - | Water over several area roadways near creeks...including Wolf Creek area and Elk Creek area near Augusta. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wolf Creek | - | A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 59 mph at Wolf Creek 8N (the Gary Cooper Bridge DOT site). |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wolf Creek | - | A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 60 mph at Wolf Creek 9S (Sieben Flats DOT site). |
| May 2001 | Hail | Wolf Creek | - | Wolf Creek 3 NE spotter. |
| July 2001 | Hail | Wolf Creek | - | Actual event location Wolf Creek 8 NW. |
| September 2000 | Wildfire | Wolf Creek | - | Wolf Creek fire, 389 acres burned, vehicle caused, continued from August. |
| August 2000 | Wildfire | Wolf Creek | - | Wolf Creek fire, 389 acres burned, vehicle caused, continued past August 31. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wolf Creek | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Wolf Creek | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Wolf Creek | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Wolf Creek | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Wolf Creek | - | no account filed |
| September 1997 | Hail | Wolf Creek | - | no account filed |
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
1 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Dearborn River High Bridge | 7.4 miles | 2003 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 95000382 in Record Group 79. |
| Lewis and Clark County | All 82 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.