Farmers and Merchants State Bank

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“The Farmers and Merchants State Bank is a bank building in Eureka, Montana. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places August 31, 1995.”
Wikipedia article Farmers and Merchants State Bank (Eureka, Montana), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Lincoln County · listed in 1995 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 223 Dewey Ave., Eureka, 59917
When was it listed? August 1995
Category. building
Census division. Eureka
National Register reference number. 95001062 - 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

263 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 263 fires within 5 miles of Farmers and Merchants State Bank between 1992 and 2020, burning about 450 acres in total. 51 started naturally. 6 were 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
Debris and open burning	100
Natural	51
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	37
Recreation and ceremony	29
Fireworks	12
Power generation/transmission/distribution	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Arson/incendiarism	6
Smoking	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Other causes	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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 1994	Smoking	under an acre	Kootenai National Forest	not named
4 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kootenai National Forest	FLAMING OWL
4 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Kootenai National Forest	TOBACCO ISLAND FIRE
27 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kootenai National Forest	CIRCLE J
26 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kootenai National Forest	PINKHAM RANCH
22 September 1994	Smoking	under an acre	Kootenai National Forest	not named
2 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Kootenai National Forest	BARN
19 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kootenai National Forest	HAY

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Farmers and Merchants State Bank: 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Barium-Barite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Bonnett-Hoerner	Barium-Barite	Prospect
	Tobacco River Placer	Gold	Prospect

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this property

3 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eureka, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2006 and 2020: 1 flood, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Eureka	$20,000	Significant power line and power pole damage was reported by the power company, due to multiple, downed trees. A photo on social media showed a large pine tree on top of a car. Power was out in the area for almost 24 hours.
August 2009	Hail	Eureka	$4,000	Hail caused significant damage to two vehicles and broke small tree limbs off nearby trees 2 miles southeast of Eureka.
November 2006	Flood	Eureka	-	Lincoln County Sheriff reported bridge washouts, small stream flooding county wide with residents sandbagging property to protect homes. Flooding was reported near Libby from Libby Creek over topping its bands and flood waters lapping onto a home.

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Eureka Community Hall	0.1 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95001062 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lincoln County	All 9 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.