Madison Museum

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1929 (rustic architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Madison Museum is one of a series of "trailside museums" in Yellowstone National Park designed by architect Herbert Maier in a style that has become known as National Park Service Rustic. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, and is one of three parts of a 1987-declared National Historic Landmark, the Norris, Madison, and Fishing Bridge Museums.”
Wikipedia article Madison Museum, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 65 National Register listings published here for Teton County · listed in 1982 · category: Building · built in 1929, rustic architecture, by Herbert Maier · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Yellowstone National Park, Madison Junction, 82190
When was it listed? July 1982
Category. building
Also known as. Yellowstone National Park MPS
Census division. Yellowstone National Park
When was it built? 1929
Architectural style. rustic architecture
Architect. Herbert Maier
National Register reference number. 82001720 - 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

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Madison Museum between 1994 and 2020, burning about 29 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	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
23 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	GIBBON
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
26 July 2011	Natural	23 acres	Yellowstone National Park	GIBBON

Every fire recorded in Teton 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
	Queen's Laundry Bath House	5.4 miles	2001

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82001720 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Teton County	All 65 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.