Norris, Madison, and Fishing Bridge Museums

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“The Norris, Madison, and Fishing Bridge Museums are three "trailside museums" within Yellowstone National Park in the western United States. Built in 1929 to designs by Herbert Maier, they are preeminent early examples of the National Park Service Rustic style of architecture, and served as models for the construction of park buildings elsewhere in the park system in the 1930s.”
Wikipedia article Norris, Madison, and Fishing Bridge Museums, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Park County · listed in 1987 · 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. Norris Geyser Basin, Madison Junction, and Fishing Bridge, Yellowstone National Park, 82190
When was it listed? May 1987
Category. district
Census division. Yellowstone National Park
Architectural style. rustic architecture
Architect. Herbert Maier
National Register reference number. 87001445 - 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

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Norris, Madison, and Fishing Bridge Museums between 1996 and 2018, burning about 5,683 acres in total. 6 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	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
7 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	COWAN
26 August 2016	Natural	2,129 acres	Yellowstone National Park	CENTRAL
24 August 1996	Natural	13 acres	Yellowstone National Park	MARY
2 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	ALUM CREEK
10 August 2012	Natural	3,540 acres	Yellowstone National Park	CYGNET
10 July 2018	Natural	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	HAYDEN
5 June 2000	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	CYGNET

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

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
	Grand Loop Road Historic District	3.7 miles	2003
	Norris Museum/Norris Comfort Station	7.1 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87001445 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.