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Photograph of Symes Hotel
Photograph by JERRYE AND ROY KLOTZ MD, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Symes Hotel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“The Symes Hotel is a historic building in Hot Springs, Montana. It was built in Mission/Spanish Revival style during 1929-1930.”

Wikipedia article Symes Hotel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 23 National Register listings published here for Sanders 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 10 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 209 N. Wall St., Hot Springs, 59845
  • When was it listed? November 1998
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Flathead Reservation
  • Architectural style. Spanish Colonial Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 98001363 - 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

53 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Symes Hotel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 929 acres in total. 26 started naturally. 6 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
Natural26
Recreation and ceremony10
Equipment and vehicle use7
Arson/incendiarism6
Fireworks2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeMARKEL HILL
5 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlathead AgencyMARKLE 4
5 September 2013Naturalunder an acreFlathead AgencyWELCOME SPRINGS
14 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFlathead AgencyH HILL
13 September 1996Naturalunder an acreFlathead AgencyGARDEN CRK
1 September 2019Naturalunder an acreFlathead AgencyMILE MARKER 13
1 September 2019Natural60 acresFlathead AgencyWELCOME 1002
9 August 2016Naturalunder an acreFlathead AgencyWELCOME 1050

Every fire recorded in Sanders County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Symes Hotel: 2 unknowns, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Geothermal, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unnamed FlagstoneStoneOccurrence
Camas Hot SpringsGeothermalProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unnamed Hot SpringsGeothermalProducer

Every working recorded in Sanders 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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 98001363 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sanders CountyAll 23 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.