Sanders Gynmasium and Community Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“The Sanders Gymnasium and Community Hall, located in Sanders, Montana, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.”
Wikipedia article Sanders Gymnasium and Community Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Treasure County · listed in 1997 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Old Hwy 10, 6 mi. E of Hysham, Sanders, 59076
When was it listed? August 1997
Category. building
Census division. South Treasure
National Register reference number. 97000976 - 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

4 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Sanders Gynmasium and Community Hall between 2012 and 2019, burning about 615 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Debris and open burning	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
6 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	80 acres	Treasure County	TREASURE 525
30 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Treasure County	TRUCK POT
2 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Southern Land Office	SANDERS
13 March 2012	Debris and open burning	535 acres	Southern Land Office	HIGHWAY 10

Every fire recorded in Treasure 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 Sanders Gynmasium and Community Hall: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Aluminum. 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
	Mountain States Clay Products, Inc.	Clay	Occurrence
	Unnamed Location	Aluminum	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Treasure County

Storms near this property

11 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sanders, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 6 hail, 3 flood, 1 flash flood, 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
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Sanders	-	An isolated thunderstorm during the early evening of the 5th produced a microburst. Some minor damage, including an uprooted tree, was reported.
July 2020	Hail	Sanders	-	Property damage was reported.
May 2013	Flood	Sanders	-	Minor flooding occurred on River Basin Creek and other small streams and rivers in Treasure County.
June 2013	Flood	Sanders	-	Minor flooding occurred on River Basin Creek and other small streams and rivers in Treasure County.
May 2011	Flood	Sanders	-	Several roads across Treasure County flooded, especially northeast of Hysham area.
April 1999	Hail	Sanders	-	A spotter in Sanders (7NE Hysham) reported nickel to dime sized hail as well as flash flooding along Starve to Death Creek as a thunderstorm moved slowly northeast over the area.
July 2020	Hail	Sanders	-	no account filed
July 2020	Hail	Sanders	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Sanders	-	no account filed
April 1999	Flash Flood	Sanders	-	no account filed
May 1995	Hail	Sanders	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Treasure 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
	Yucca Theatre	6.3 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97000976 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Treasure County	All 3 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.