Built in 1916 (American Craftsman). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
From the record
“Joseph's Catholic Church is a site on the National Register of Historic Places located at the D'Aste Townsite. It was added to the Register on March 18, 1999.”
Wikipedia article St. Joseph's Catholic Church (Moiese, Montana), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 9 National Register listings published here for Lake County · listed in 1999 · category: Building · built in 1916, American Craftsman.
National Register reference number.99000345- 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
35 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 35 fires within 5 miles of St. Joseph's Catholic Church
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 31 acres in total. 9 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
9
Debris and open burning
8
Equipment and vehicle use
7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
6
Smoking
2
Recreation and ceremony
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Other causes
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of St. Joseph's Catholic Church: 1 unknown.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Moiese, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2006 and 2024: 3 hail, 2 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.
Multiple large, mature Colorado spruce and ponderosa pine trees were blown down along with smaller deciduous trees across the Mission Valley. Shingle damage also occurred on several homes with power outages in Pablo.
Ping pong size hail, very heavy rain, and gusty winds were reported at the National Bison Range. A hay crop was destroyed near St. Ignatius. Hail damaged an RV roof.
A thunderstorm outflow boundary triggered another cell that grew in strength over higher terrain west of Moiese. This thunderstorm produced hail one inch in diameter, as reported by personnel at the National Bison Range.
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.
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.
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