Chico Hot Springs

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

One of 35 National Register listings published here for Park County · listed in 1998 · category: District.

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 7 buildingss, 1 site, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 2 mi. NE of Chico, 3.5 mi. SE of Emigrant, Pray, 59065
When was it listed? August 1998
Category. district
Census division. Livingston
National Register reference number. 98001085 - 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

11 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Chico Hot Springs between 1995 and 2019, burning about 12 acres in total. 7 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	7
Recreation and ceremony	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
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
15 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Park County	MILE 575
3 August 1999	Natural	10 acres	Custer Gallatin National Forest	CHICO
15 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	CONLIN GULCH
15 August 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	MESS KIT
14 August 1996	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	DRY CREEK
14 August 1996	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	SOLDIER
1 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	PRIZE
12 May 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Park County	not named

Every fire recorded in Park County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 39 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 39 workings within 5 miles of Chico Hot Springs: 16 unknowns, 14 prospects, 4 occurrences, 3 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Silver, Gold, Copper, Lead. 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
Alaska	Silver, Zinc, Gold, Lead	Unknown
Balm of Gilead Mama Gaylord Creek	Silver, Zinc, Lead, Gold	Prospect
Basic Metals Mine	Copper, Silver, Lead, Gold, Zinc	Prospect
Chico Hot Springs	Stone, Dimension	Unknown
Crown Point	Gold, Silver, Lead	Unknown
Emigrant	Gold, Silver, Molybdenum, Lead	Producer	Galena, Molybdenite, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Gold Leaf	Silver, Gold, Copper	Occurrence
Great Eastern Mine	Copper, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Gold	Prospect
Great Western	Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc	Prospect
Klu Klux Claim	Silver, Lead, Zinc	Unknown

Every working recorded in Park County

Storms near this property

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pray, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2022: 1 hail, 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
September 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Pray	-	no account filed
July 2016	Hail	Pray	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Park 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

2 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
	Frederick and Josephine Bottler House	4.5 miles	2020
	John Hepburn Place	7.3 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98001085 in Record Group 79.
Park County	All 35 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.