Photograph of Norris Geyser Basin Museum — Photograph by Magicpiano, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Norris Museum/Norris Comfort Station

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1929 (National Park Service rustic). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“The Norris Geyser Basin Museum, also known as Norris 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 is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and is one of three parts of a National Historic Landmark, the Norris, Madison, and Fishing Bridge Museums, which were funded by Laura Spelman Rockefeller's grant of $118,000.”
Wikipedia article Norris Geyser Basin Museum, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Park County · listed in 1983 · category: Building · built in 1929, National Park Service rustic, 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Grand Loop Rd., Yellowstone National Park, 82190
When was it listed? July 1983
Category. building
Also known as. Yellowstone National Park MPS
Census division. Yellowstone National Park
When was it built? 1929
Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
Architect. Herbert Maier
National Register reference number. 83003362 - 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 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Norris Museum/Norris Comfort Station between 1992 and 2016, burning about 1 acre in total. 4 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	4
Recreation and ceremony	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Debris and open burning	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Smoking	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
2 September 1994	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	NORRIS
24 August 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	FALLING
16 August 2000	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	KNOTHEAD
13 August 1992	Natural	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	ICELAKE
10 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	DRESSER
1 July 2007	Smoking	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	SOLFATARA
9 June 2004	Natural	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	NORRIS
25 June 1997	Natural	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	ELKPARK

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.

Listed places nearby

4 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Grand Loop Road Historic District	4.6 miles	2003
Obsidian Cliff	5.8 miles	1996
Obsidian Cliff Kiosk	6.8 miles	1982
Norris, Madison, and Fishing Bridge Museums	7.1 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83003362 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.