Virgelle Mercantile and Virgelle State Bank

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Chouteau County · listed in 1997 · category: Building.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Co. Rd. 430, approximately 6.3 mi. S of US 87, Virgelle, 59460
When was it listed? April 1997
Category. building
Census division. Big Sandy
National Register reference number. 97000315 - 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

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Virgelle Mercantile and Virgelle State Bank between 1999 and 2018, burning about 876 acres in total. 4 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	4
Equipment and vehicle use	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
11 August 2018	Natural	822 acres	North Central Montana District	VIRGELLE
24 July 1999	Natural	20 acres	North Central Montana District	NO 3
24 July 1999	Natural	2.0 acres	North Central Montana District	NO 4
2 July 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	12 acres	Central Land Office	HIGHWAY 321
28 April 2018	Natural	20 acres	Northeastern Land Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Chouteau 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 Virgelle Mercantile and Virgelle State Bank: 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Silica. 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 Clay Deposit	Clay	Occurrence
	Virgelle Sandstone	Silica	Unknown

Every working recorded in Chouteau County

Storms near this property

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Virgelle, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2022: 2 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
July 2022	Hail	Virgelle	-	Video from Virgelle of hail ranging from half inch to nearly one inch in size.
May 2014	Hail	Virgelle	-	Hail 2.00 inches (hen egg sized) reported.

Every storm recorded in Chouteau 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 97000315 in Record Group 79.
Chouteau County	All 20 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.