William C. Crum House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

One of 82 National Register listings published here for Lewis and Clark 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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Crum, William C., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 535 5th Ave., Helena, 59601
When was it listed? May 1997
Category. building
Census division. Helena
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
National Register reference number. 97000502 - 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

174 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 174 fires within 5 miles of William C. Crum House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,200 acres in total. 43 started naturally. 3 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
Natural	43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	43
Recreation and ceremony	29
Debris and open burning	24
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Fireworks	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Arson/incendiarism	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	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 1995	Natural	under an acre	Helena - Lewis and Clark National Forest	TUCKER GULCH/
7 September 1995	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Central Land Office	FORT HARRISON
30 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Central Land Office	RODNEY RIDGE
30 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Central Land Office	GLORY HOLE
27 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Helena - Lewis and Clark National Forest	not named
19 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Central Land Office	GRIZZLY GULCH
17 September 2017	Debris and open burning	98 acres	Central Land Office	ELK RIDGE
17 September 1998	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Central Land Office	MRL MMP #4

Every fire recorded in Lewis and Clark County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 76 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 76 workings within 5 miles of William C. Crum House: 31 past producers, 15 unknowns, 13 occurrences, 10 producers. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Gold, Silver, Silver, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Blue Bird Mine	Copper, Gold, Iron, Silver	Prospect
Franklin Mine	Silver, Gold, Copper, Lead, Silica, Zinc	Past Producer	Galena, Gold
Franklin and Sam Gaty	Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver	Past Producer
Grizzly Gulch	Limestone, General, Dolomite	Unknown
Helena District	Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Stone, Tungsten, Arsenic, Marble, Dimension, Dolomite	Past Producer	1864
Helena Hot Spring	Geothermal	Producer
Independent Mine	Gold, Copper, Tungsten, Uranium, Zinc	Past Producer
Independent Prospect	Gold, Silver, Tungsten	Past Producer	Gold, Scheelite, Silver
Limestone Occurrence	Limestone, Dimension	Occurrence
Maybesto & Try Claims	Gold, Lead, Mercury, Silver	Unknown

Every working recorded in Lewis and Clark County

Storms near this property

60 of 70 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Helena, the town this property stands in, in 70 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 29 hail, 16 thunderstorm wind, 10 flash flood, 10 heavy rain. The reports record 4 injuries. 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 2000	Wildfire	Helena	2 hurt, $2,500,000	Canyon Ferry Complex - includes Broadwater County, 38570 acres burned, 13 residences destroyed, 37 outbuildings destroyed, unknown cause, continued past July 31.
August 2000	Wildfire	Helena	2 hurt, $2,500,000	Continued Canyon Ferry Complex - includes Broadwater County, 38570 acres burned, cause unknown, 13 residents destroyed, 37 outbuildings destroyed.
July 2022	Flash Flood	Helena	$700,000	Significant flash flooding across downtown and Last Chance Gulch area. Severe businesses sustained damage, including Helena YWCA and the Lewis and Clark Library. 1 to 2 feet of water flowing up against business doors. Flood waters up to bumpers of vans. Moviegoers at the Helena Cinemark report the movie theater being evacuated, with water draining into the lobby area. Some vehicles were also initially stranded in the lower level of the Great Northern Parking Garage. Several streets in the Capitol area saw rapid flooding with a number of homeowners reporting basement flooding.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Helena	$10,000	Roof blown off mobile home.
August 1999	Flash Flood	Helena	$4,000	no account filed
June 1997	Tornado (F0)	Helena	$2,000	no account filed
May 2008	Dust Devil	Helena	$1,000	Dust devil blew off roof of shed and blew other objects around.
July 2022	Heavy Rain	Helena	-	Rainfall of 1.11 INCHES recorded in 15 min per Ambient Weather station.
July 2022	Heavy Rain	Helena	-	Rainfall amount fell in 10 min per Ambient Weather station.
July 2022	Heavy Rain	Helena	-	Report via trained spotter.
July 2022	Heavy Rain	Helena	-	Event total of 2.1 inches.
July 2022	Flash Flood	Helena	-	Pictures of water up to homes near winnie and sanders avenues. Significant flooding of intersections with fast moving water.
July 2022	Heavy Rain	East Helena	-	Trained spotter reported 1.98 inches of rainfall per hour. Winds gusting 32 mph.
July 2022	Flash Flood	Helena	-	Law enforcement closed portions of neill and fuller avenues due to flooding. Water flooded down Last Chance Gulch and impacted numerous businesses.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Helena	-	A large tree blown down on Madison/Gilbert Street in Helena. Wind speed and gust estimate not reported.
August 2019	Hail	East Helena	-	A trained spotter reported mixed nickle and quarter sized hail (.88 to 1 inch in diameter).
August 2019	Heavy Rain	Helena	-	COCORAHS reported a 24 hour rainfall total of 1.05 inches, with .72 inches falling within 10 minutes.
September 2019	Heavy Rain	Helena	-	A rainfall total of 2.22 inches was reported by the public at 10 NNE East Helena. Rainfall total began on the evening of Friday, September 6th and ended Monday evening, September 9th.
September 2019	Heavy Rain	Helena	-	A COCORAHS station at 2 NW of Helena reported 1 inch of rain.
September 2019	Heavy Rain	Helena	-	A trained spotter at 2 SE Helena reported a 24 hour total rainfall 1.8 inches, based on surrounding observations, most of it fell since 4PM September 8th.
September 2019	Heavy Rain	Helena	-	A trained spotter at 11 W Helena reported 1.19 inches of rain since 7PM September 8th, and a three day total of 1.96 inches.
May 2018	Flash Flood	Helena	-	KTVH reported flash flooding at intersection of 11th Ave and N. Montana Ave in Helena.
June 2017	Hail	Helena	-	Retired NWS employee reported ping pong ball-size hail just north of MacDonald Pass.
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Helena	-	Reports of uprooted trees, as well as trees that broke in half at the Treasure State Acres Subdivision in northern Helena.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Helena	-	Facebook photos were submitted during an outdoor event, showing mangled and destroyed tents along with porta-potties blown over. A stage also suffered minor damage. Time estimated.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	East Helena	-	A thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 58 mph at East Helena 4NNW.
July 2013	Hail	Helena	-	Hail measuring 1.25 inches (half dollar sized) was reported 2 mi SE of Helena, MT.
July 2013	Flash Flood	Helena	-	Flash flooding reported around the Corral Fire burn scar. Water and debris covered the intersection of Green Meadow Drive and Norris Road. No injuries or damage were reported.
July 2013	Hail	Helena	-	Hail measuring 1.75 inches was reported 9 mi NNE of Helena, MT.
July 2013	Hail	Helena	-	Hail measuring 1.00 inches was reported by a trained spotter 5 mi NNE of Helena, MT.
July 2011	Hail	Helena	-	A thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Helena 10N.
June 2010	Hail	East Helena	-	A thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at East Helena 5E.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Helena	-	A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 58 mph at Helena 15N.
May 2008	Hail	Helena	-	A thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Helena 6NE.
June 2007	Hail	Helena	-	A severe thunderstorm dropped 1.5 inch diameter hail at Helena 6N.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	East Helena	-	A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 65 mph at East Helena. The wind damaged numreous trees. A possible funnel cloud was also reported by the public.
June 2007	Hail	Helena	-	A severe thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Helena.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Helena	-	A severe thunderstorm produced a 59 mph wind gust at Helena.
July 2002	Hail	Helena	-	A severe thunderstorm moved through the Helena area on the 14th. Hail generally ranged from 1 inch to 1.75 inches in diameter. Wind gusts between 60 and 70 mph were common throughout the Helena area. Numerous trees and power lines were knocked down.
May 2001	Hail	Helena	-	Helena spotter.
July 2001	Flash Flood	Helena	-	Actual event location is Cave Creek at marina on northern shore of Canyon Ferry Lake (approximately 20 E of Helena)...Rainfall onto scorched earth (from wildfire in 2000) caused flowing water and mud to wash out road...Monetary damage unknown.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Helena	-	Actual spotter location Helena 8 N...Street signs blown over...Shingles blown off roof...Trees blown down...Monetary damage unknown.
July 2001	Hail	Helena	-	Reported by spotter in Helena.
July 2001	Flash Flood	Helena	-	Actual event location is Cave Creek (approximately 20 E of Helena - Cave Creek is the creek that runs down Cave Gulch where soil was scorched by wildfire in 2000)...Driveway washed out by flowing water and mud...Monetary damage unknown.
July 2001	Hail	Helena	-	Actual spotter location Helena 10 NE.
August 2001	Hail	Helena	-	Former NWS employee reported 1 inch diameter hail in the city of Helena.
August 2001	Hail	Helena	-	Actual spotter location Helena 12 NE.
August 2001	Hail	Helena	-	Actual spotter location Helena 10 N.
August 2001	Flash Flood	Helena	-	Actual event location is Cave Creek at marina on northern shore of Canyon Ferry Lake (approximately 20 E of Helena)...Brief heavy rainfall onto scorched earth (from wildfire in 2000) caused flooding on roadway...Monetary damage unknown.
August 2001	Hail	Helena	-	NWS off-duty employee reported 1 1/2 inch diameter hail in the city of Helena.
July 2001	Flash Flood	Helena	-	Actual event location is Magpie Creek at the point it empties into the north end of Canyon Ferry Lake (location is approximately 20 E of Helena)...Flowing water and mud washed out road at event location...No other damage reported.
January 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Helena	-	The roof was blown off the city maintenance shop and electric power was lost on the west side when a transmission line was blown down.
June 2005	Hail	Helena	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Helena	-	no account filed
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	East Helena	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Helena	-	no account filed
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Helena	-	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Helena	-	no account filed
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Helena	-	no account filed
August 2003	Hail	Helena	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lewis and Clark 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
Huseby, John H,. House	under 500 feet	2012
Helena Historic District (Boundary Increase II)	0.1 miles	1993
Lyman-Neel Residence	0.1 miles	2019
Robert and Elizabeth Fisk House	0.1 miles	2007
Francis and Hannah Pope House	0.1 miles	2007
Childs Carriage House	0.2 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97000502 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.
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.