Lodgepole Community Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“Lodgepole Community Hall is a site on the National Register of Historic Places located in Lodgepole, Montana on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation. It was added to the Register on February 24, 2000.”
Wikipedia article Lodgepole Community Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Blaine County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Fort Belknap Indian Community, Lodgepole, 59524
When was it listed? February 2000
Category. building
Census division. Fort Belknap
Architectural style. rustic architecture
National Register reference number. 00000148 - 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

91 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Lodgepole Community Hall between 1992 and 2020, burning about 432 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 2 were 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
Debris and open burning	25
Natural	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
Other causes	5
Fireworks	5
Smoking	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Arson/incendiarism	2

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
9 September 2006	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.0 acres	Fort Belknap Agency	MAIN
6 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	4.9 acres	North Central Montana District	BEAVER MOUNTAIN
3 September 2000	Natural	1.0 acres	Fort Belknap Agency	BLAIR
3 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fort Belknap Agency	TAURS
20 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fort Belknap Agency	DUMPSTER
2 September 2007	Other causes	1.0 acres	Fort Belknap Agency	GOAT
18 September 1998	Natural	3.0 acres	Fort Belknap Agency	CURLY HEAD
9 August 2014	Natural	under an acre	Fort Belknap Agency	BILLY GOAT

Every fire recorded in Blaine County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Lodgepole Community Hall: 1 producer, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Geothermal, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Big Warm Springs	Geothermal	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Blaine 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
	St. Paul's Mission Church	7.6 miles	2020

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00000148 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Blaine 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.