Savenac Nursery Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“Savenac Nursery Historic District is located near Haugan in Mineral County, Montana. Savenac was once one of the largest and oldest USDA Forest Service tree nurseries in the western United States, operating from 1907 until 1969.”
Wikipedia article Savenac Nursery Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Mineral County · listed in 1999 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. I-90, S of Haugan, Haugan, 59830
When was it listed? August 1999
Category. district
Census division. West End
National Register reference number. 99000988 - 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

72 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Savenac Nursery Historic District between 1993 and 2020, burning about 74 acres in total. 44 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	44
Debris and open burning	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

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
6 September 2003	Natural	1.5 acres	Lolo National Forest	CRUZANE MTN.
3 September 2001	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	SALTESE
3 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	WEST TWIN CREEK
3 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	BROKEN HEART
17 September 2006	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Panhandle National Forest	COPPER GREY WFU
13 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	DEBORGIA
12 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	BIG CREEK FIRE
9 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	FLAT CRUZANE

Every fire recorded in Mineral County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 32 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 32 workings within 5 miles of Savenac Nursery Historic District: 17 occurrences, 10 past producers, 2 producers, 2 unknowns. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Lead, Silver, Lead, Silver. 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
Black Traveler and Burlong Mines	Silver, Copper	Occurrence	Vein
Copper Rock Mine	Lead, Silver, Zinc, Copper	Occurrence
East Coeur D Alene Mine	Silver, Copper, Lead	Past Producer
East Coeur D'Alene Mine	Lead, Silver, Copper, Zinc	Occurrence	Vein
Hugo Mine	Copper, Silver, Gold	Past Producer	Vein
Minnick Mine	Copper, Silver, Lead, Gold	Past Producer	Vein
Saltese Consolidated Mine	Lead, Zinc	Occurrence
Saltese Consolidated Mine	Lead, Zinc	Occurrence
Texas Mine	Lead, Copper, Silver, Zinc	Occurrence
True Fissure	Silver, Lead	Prospect

Every working recorded in Mineral County

Storms near this property

1 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Haugan, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2006: 1 hail. 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 2006	Hail	Haugan	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mineral 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

1 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
	DeBorgia Schoolhouse	2.4 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99000988 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mineral County	All 19 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.