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Photograph of Mammoth Hot Springs Historic District
Photograph by Jet Lowe, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Mammoth Hot Springs Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“The Mammoth Hot Springs Historic District is a 158-acre (64 ha) historic district in Yellowstone National Park comprising the administrative center for the park. It is composed of two major parts: Fort Yellowstone, the military administrative center between 1886 and 1918, and now a National Historic Landmark, and a concessions district which provides food, shopping, services, and lodging for park visitors and employees.”

Wikipedia article Mammoth Hot Springs Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Park County · listed in 2002 · category: District.

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

The listing

Fires near this property

37 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Mammoth Hot Springs Historic District between 1993 and 2020, burning about 83 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 1 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
Natural17
Recreation and ceremony8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Fireworks3
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 1997Smokingunder an acreYellowstone National ParkCACHE
6 September 1998Natural16 acresYellowstone National ParkRESCUE
14 September 2009Natural15 acresYellowstone National ParkRAINBOW
13 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreYellowstone National ParkBRANDING IRON
12 September 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreYellowstone National ParkPOW WOW
10 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreYellowstone National ParkPLUMBER
10 September 1997Naturalunder an acreYellowstone National ParkCLAGETT
1 September 1994Natural37 acresYellowstone National ParkDECKARD

Every fire recorded in Park 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 Mammoth Hot Springs Historic District: 2 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Gold, Silver, Copper, Stone, Dimension. 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
Bear Creek SpringsGeothermalProducer
Gardiner Travertine DepositsLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerTravertine
Gardiner Travertine QuarryTravertinePast Producer
Gardiner Travertine SawStone, DimensionProducer
Moonlight MineGold, Silver, CopperOccurrence

Every working recorded in Park 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

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
US Post Office-Yellowstone Mainunder 500 feet1987
North Entrance Road Historic District1.9 miles2002

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 02000257 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Park CountyAll 38 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.