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One of 90 National Register listings published here for Missoula County · listed in 1995 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Stark School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Ninemile Rd., Ninemile Valley, Huson, 59846
- When was it listed? October 1995
- Category. building
- Census division. Frenchtown-Wye
- National Register reference number. 95001165 - 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
166 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 166 fires within 5 miles of Stark School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 157 acres in total. 86 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 86 |
| Debris and open burning | 29 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 27 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Lolo National Forest | RIDGEWOOD DRIVE #2 |
| 5 September 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Lolo National Forest | JOSEPHINE CREEK |
| 4 September 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Lolo National Forest | FIRE CREEK #2 |
| 28 September 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Lolo National Forest | DONKEY ALLEY |
| 23 September 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Lolo National Forest | KREIS POND |
| 2 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Lolo National Forest | DRY GULCH |
| 19 September 2003 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Lolo National Forest | FAVORITE |
| 19 September 1992 | Natural | 6.0 acres | Lolo National Forest | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 28 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Stark School: 11 past producers, 10 occurrences, 3 producers, 3 prospects. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Zinc, Lead. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hautilla Prospect | Copper, Silver, Gold, Zinc | Past Producer | Chalcopyrite, Malachite | |
| Hauttula Prospect | Silver, Gold, Zinc, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Kennedy Creek Mine | Lead, Zinc, Copper, Silver, Gold | Past Producer | Vein | |
| Lost Cabin | Zinc, Silver, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Lost Cabin Group | Zinc, Lead, Gold, Silver, Copper | Past Producer | Chalcopyrite, Covellite, Galena, Gold, Silver, Sphalerite | |
| Nugget Mine | Zinc, Lead, Copper, Silver | Prospect | Vein | |
| Nugget Mine | Lead, Zinc, Silver, Copper | Prospect | ||
| Kennedy Creek Mines | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Josephine | Copper | Prospect | ||
| Able Placer | Gold | Occurrence | Placer |
Storms near this property
11 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Huson, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 9 hail, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2024 | Hail | Huson | - | An NWS employee measured 1 inch hail near Frenchtown. |
| June 2006 | Hail | Huson | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Huson | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Huson | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Huson | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Huson | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Huson | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Huson | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huson | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huson | - | no account filed |
| September 1997 | Hail | Huson | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | U.S. Forest Service Remount Depot | 5.7 miles | 1980 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 95001165 in Record Group 79. |
| Missoula County | All 90 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.