BlockFrom the record
One of 20 National Register listings published here for Chouteau County · listed in 1998 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Square Butte Jail
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Salsbury Ave., Square Butte, 59446
- When was it listed? July 1998
- Category. building
- Census division. Geraldine
- National Register reference number. 98000888 - 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
7 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Square Butte Jail between 1992 and 2019, burning about 38 acres in total. 5 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 | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 August 1994 | Natural | under an acre | North Central Montana District | SQUAREBUTE |
| 7 August 1999 | Natural | under an acre | North Central Montana District | NO 7 |
| 6 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Chouteau County | FDH-MTLG19-129 |
| 5 August 2018 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Northeastern Land Office | not named |
| 18 August 1992 | Natural | 15 acres | North Central Montana District | SQUARE TOP |
| 20 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.7 acres | Judith Basin County | FDH-MTLG36-68 |
| 15 July 2011 | Natural | 2.0 acres | North Central Montana District | ELK RUB |
Storms near this property
7 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Square Butte, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1999 and 2016: 4 hail, 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Square Butte | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Hail | Square Butte | - | A thunderstorm dropped 2 inch diameter hail at Square Butte 1SW. Also, 1.75 inch diameter hail was reported at Winifred 12W and 2 inch diameter hail at Winifred 10W. |
| June 2016 | Hail | Square Butte | - | A thunderstorm dropped 2 inch diameter hail at Square Butte 1SW. |
| August 2014 | Heavy Rain | Square Butte | - | Heavy rain, measuring 0.70 inches in 20 minutes, was reported. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Square Butte | - | High wind gusts, measuring 56KT (64MPH), were reported. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Square Butte | - | Hail 1.00 inches (quarter sized) reported about 2 mi N of Square Butte, MT. |
| August 2002 | Hail | Square Butte | - | A severe thunderstorm produced 0.88 inch hail near Square Butte. |
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
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Square Butte School | 0.2 miles | 2013 | |
| West Quincy Granite Quarry | 4.4 miles | 2000 | |
| Lonetree | 4.6 miles | 1980 | |
 | First National Bank of Geraldine | 6.7 miles | 2008 |
 | Geraldine Milwaukee Depot | 6.8 miles | 1997 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 98000888 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.
- 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.