North Entrance Road Historic District

Built in 1883 (rustic architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“The North Entrance Road Historic District is a historic district and road in Yellowstone National Park in Park County, Wyoming, and Park County, Montana in the United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).”
Wikipedia article North Entrance Road Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Park County · listed in 2002 · category: District · built in 1883, rustic architecture.

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

The listing

Address. Yellowstone National Park, Yellowstone National Park, 59030
When was it listed? May 2002
Category. district
Also known as. Yellowstone National Park MPS
When was it built? 1883
Architectural style. rustic architecture
National Register reference number. 02000530 - 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

48 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of North Entrance Road Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,270 acres in total. 22 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
Natural	22
Recreation and ceremony	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Fireworks	3
Debris and open burning	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

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
14 September 2009	Natural	15 acres	Yellowstone National Park	RAINBOW
13 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	BRANDING IRON
12 September 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	POW WOW
10 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	PLUMBER
10 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	CLAGETT
10 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	LITTLE TRAIL CREEK
1 September 1994	Natural	37 acres	Yellowstone National Park	DECKARD
1 September 1994	Natural	2,200 acres	Custer Gallatin National Forest	DECKARD FLATS

Every fire recorded in Park County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of North Entrance Road Historic District: 5 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Lead, Gold, Silver, Limestone, General. 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
Bear Creek Springs	Geothermal	Producer
Gardiner Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Gardiner Travertine Deposits	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Travertine
Gardiner Travertine Quarry	Travertine	Past Producer
Gardiner Travertine Saw	Stone, Dimension	Producer
Moonlight Mine	Gold, Silver, Copper	Occurrence
Vindicator	Gold, Tungsten	Occurrence
Pratt	Lead, Gold, Silver	Past Producer
Tower Grove	Lead, Gold, Silver	Past Producer
Bear Creek	Gold	Unknown

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	Property	Distance	Listed
	US Post Office-Yellowstone Main	1.9 miles	1987
	Mammoth Hot Springs Historic District	1.9 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02000530 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Park County	All 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.