Lake McDonald, Montana

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

• Greve's Tourist Cabinslisted 2008
• Kelly's Camp Historic Districtlisted 2009
• Alice Beck Cabinlisted 2008

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1904 USGS Chief Mountain quadrangle1:125000, 8 printings
• 1938 USGS Chief Mountain quadrangle1:125000, 8 printings
• 1960 USGS Cut Bank quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1963 USGS Cut Bank quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS Cut Bank quadrangle1:250000
• 1968 USGS Lake Mc Donald East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1994 USGS Lake Mc Donald East quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Lake McDonald between 1992 and 2018, burning about 31,668 acres in total. 23 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Crystal Ford
• Geduhn (historical)
• Sperry Chalets
• Essex
• Marion
• Pine Prairie

Every fire recorded in Flathead County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake McDonald in 4 storm reports between 2004 and 2025: 2 heavy rain, 1 flash flood, 1 debris flow. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Flathead County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 785919. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.