Lolo Trail

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

From the record

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Clearwater County · listed in 1966 · category: Site · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

Address. Parallel to U.S. 12 on ridges of Bitterroot Mountains, from Lolo Pass to Weippe, Lolo Hot Springs
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. site
National Register reference number. 66000309 - 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

89 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Lolo Trail between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,529 acres in total. 85 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	85
Recreation and ceremony	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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 2006	Natural	under an acre	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	DOE
5 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	MOCCASIN
5 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	MINK CREEK
4 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	DOE CREEK
3 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	SADDLE CAMP
20 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	DOE
12 September 1996	Natural	2.0 acres	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	POST OFFICE
12 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	JERRY JOHNSON

Every fire recorded in Clearwater County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Lolo Trail: 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Howard Creek	Gold	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Clearwater 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 66000309 in Record Group 79.
Clearwater County	All 8 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.