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Photograph of Adams Block
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Adams Block

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The Adams Block, at 123 Main St. in Three Forks, Montana, was built in 1918. It is an Early Commercial-style building.”

Wikipedia article Adams Block, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 104 National Register listings published here for Gallatin County · listed in 1999 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 123 Main St., Three Forks, 59752
  • When was it listed? May 1999
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Three Forks
  • National Register reference number. 99000597 - 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

24 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Adams Block between 2000 and 2020, burning about 1,409 acres in total. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Natural6
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
30 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBeaverhead County201066
3 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFergus County201056
28 September 2020Debris and open burning15 acresGallatin CountyCIRCLE S
11 September 2019Naturalunder an acreGallatin Countynot named
29 August 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresCentral Land OfficeWILLOW CREEK
27 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGallatin Countynot named
2 August 2005Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestLYONS FACE
19 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGallatin County202063

Every fire recorded in Gallatin 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 Adams Block: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Pumice, Gold, 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
Logan-Madison River AshPumiceOccurrence
Silica QuarryStoneProducer
Three Forks PlacerGoldProspect
B & N Portable CrusherSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Gallatin County

Storms near this property

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Three Forks, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2011: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2011FloodThree Forks-Flooding near Three Forks closed Old Town Road. Flooding also occurred in the Gallatin Canyon near Greek Creek campground. Parts of the Missouri Headwaters State Park and Drouillard Fishing access also closed due to flooding.
July 2010HailThree Forks-A thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Three Forks 5NE.
August 2002HailThree Forks-A severe thunderstorm produced 0.75 inch hail in Three Forks.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindThree Forks-GIANT COTTONWOOD TREES DOWNED
July 1998HailThree Forks-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gallatin 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

6 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Ruby Theatreunder 500 feet1982
Three Valleys State Bankunder 500 feet2005
Methodist Episcopal Church0.1 miles2000
Sacajawea Hotel0.1 miles1980
Airway Radio Station0.8 miles1998
Three Forks of the Missouri1.1 miles1966

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 99000597 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Gallatin CountyAll 104 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.