Thorn House

Built in 1915. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“The Thorn House in Alberton, Montana, located at 140 2nd St., was built in 1915. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.”
Wikipedia article Thorn House (Alberton, Montana), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Mineral County · listed in 1997 · category: Building · built in 1915.

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. 140 2nd St., Alberton, 59820
When was it listed? January 1997
Category. building
Also known as. Alberton MPS
Census division. Alberton
When was it built? 1915
National Register reference number. 96001605 - 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

199 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 199 fires within 5 miles of Thorn House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,983 acres in total. 60 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
Natural	60
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	44
Debris and open burning	36
Recreation and ceremony	18
Railroad operations and maintenance	15
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Fireworks	3
Smoking	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
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
29 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	NATURAL PIER BRIDGE
21 September 2003	Smoking	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	RANGER STATION
20 September 2018	Natural	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	SAWMILL 2
2 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	WEST NINEMILE 3
2 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	WEST NINEMILE 2
2 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	WEST NINEMILE 1
19 September 2009	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	MILE MARKER 76 #2
17 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	PLATEAU

Every fire recorded in Mineral 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 Thorn House: 1 unknown, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Beryllium. 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
	Unnamed Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
	White Cap Prospect	Beryllium	Prospect

Every working recorded in Mineral County

Storms near this property

6 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alberton, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2003 and 2018: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 wildfire, 1 hail. 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
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Alberton	$15,000	Strong winds caused several Ponderosa pine trees to be uprooted. These trees damaged a well house and an all-terrain vehicle.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Alberton	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down 3 to 4 large trees. The trees had diameters estimated to be between 1 and 3 feet along the Oregon Lakes Trail.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Alberton	-	A tree was reported down over I-90.
June 2006	Hail	Alberton	-	no account filed
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Alberton	-	no account filed
August 2003	Wildfire	Alberton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mineral 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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Alberton School	under 500 feet	1997
Chadwick House	0.1 miles	1997
Brinks House	0.2 miles	1997
Bestwick's Market	0.2 miles	1997
Railroad Depot	0.3 miles	1997
Methodist Church of Alberton	0.4 miles	1997

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96001605 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mineral County	All 19 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.