Fort Yellowstone

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

“Army fort, established in 1891 at Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park. Yellowstone was designated in 1872 but the Interior Department was unable to effectively manage the park.”
Wikipedia article Fort Yellowstone, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Park County · listed in 2003 · category: District · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

Address. Mammoth Hot Springs, WY; Norris, WY; Gardiner, MT, near Buffalo Lake, ID, Mammoth Hot Springs, 82190
When was it listed? July 2003
Category. district
National Register reference number. 03001032 - 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

13 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Fort Yellowstone between 1993 and 2017, burning about 6 acres in total. 5 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	5
Recreation and ceremony	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	1
Fireworks	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
8 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	FIREHOLE
5 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	TERRACE SP
4 September 2002	Natural	1.0 acres	Yellowstone National Park	FOUNTAIN
2 September 1994	Natural	4.0 acres	Yellowstone National Park	SENTINEL
12 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	TALUS
4 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	BROWN TROUT
29 August 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	WHITE CRK
20 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	SPASM

Every fire 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03001032 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.