Anna Scherlie Homestead Shack

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“The Anna Scherlie Homestead Shack is a site on the National Register of Historic Places located in Turner, Montana, United States. It was added to the Register on November 5, 1998.”
Wikipedia article Anna Scherlie Homestead Shack, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Blaine County · listed in 1998 · 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 3 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Scherlie, Anna, Homestead Shack - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. MT 241, S. of the Canadian border, Turner, 59542
When was it listed? November 1998
Category. building
Census division. Harlem
National Register reference number. 98001338 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Anna Scherlie Homestead Shack: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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 Bentonite	Clay	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Blaine County

Storms near this property

20 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Turner, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 12 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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 2025	Hail	Turner	-	Video on social media showed hail size up to 1.75 inches.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Turner	-	Trained spotter reported 3 to 4 foot chunks and larger tree branches were blown down due to thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2020	Hail	Turner	-	Member of public reported quarter size hail and gusty winds.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Turner	-	Aerial photo and damage indicate a macroburst went through this region. Damage path was over 5 miles long. Wind Speed estimated between 70 and 90 mph. New mobile home windows bowed in. Insulation pulled out under roof. 12 large T.
July 2018	Hail	Turner	-	Public reported quarter-size hail 3-miles SSW of Turner. Semi and trailer also reported to have been blown over in the area.
August 2014	Hail	Turner	-	Hail, measuring 1.00 inches (quarter sized), was reported.
July 2014	Hail	Turner	-	Hail, measuring 1.75 inches (golf ball sized), was reported. Damage to a garden was observed.
July 2014	Hail	Turner	-	Hail, measuring 1.00 inches (quarter sized), and wind gusts to around 50MPH, were reported.
July 2014	Heavy Rain	Turner	-	Heavy rain, measuring 1.46 inches in about 30 minutes, and .50 inch hail were reported.
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Turner	-	High wind gusts, measuring 52KT (60MPH), were reported.
July 2012	Hail	Turner	-	Golf ball sized hail, measuring 1.75 inches, was reported in Turner.
June 2007	Hail	Turner	-	A severe thunderstorm dropped 1.25 inch diameter hail at the Turner Border Station (Turner 11N).
June 2007	Hail	Turner	-	A severe thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Turner 12S. The hail covered the ground to a depth of 1 inch and destroyed the winter wheat crop.
June 2005	Tornado (F0)	Turner	-	A tornado toched down briefly at Turner 12SW. No damage was reported. The storm also produced .75 inch diameter hail.
June 2005	Hail	Turner	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Turner	-	no account filed
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Turner	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Turner	-	no account filed
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Turner	-	no account filed
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Turner	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Blaine 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 98001338 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Blaine County	All 8 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.
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.