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Lincoln Creek Snowshoe Cabin

Built in 1931 (National Park Service rustic). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

One of 168 National Register listings published here for Flathead County · listed in 2001 · category: Building · built in 1931, National Park Service rustic, by National Park Service.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. US 2, Glacier National Park, W. Glacier, 59936
  • When was it listed? February 2001
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Glacier National Park MRA
  • Census division. Glacier National Park
  • When was it built? 1931
  • Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
  • Architect. National Park Service
  • National Register reference number. 01000037 - 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

24 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Lincoln Creek Snowshoe Cabin between 1992 and 2017, burning about 10,989 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 1 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
Natural13
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 2014Naturalunder an acreGlacier National ParkSNYDER
4 September 2005Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlathead National ForestPOWERLINE FIRE
8 August 2017Naturalunder an acreGlacier National ParkSNYDER
8 August 2006Naturalunder an acreFlathead National ForestNYACK FLATS
7 August 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlathead National ForestDESERT ROAD
31 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlathead National ForestBELTON
30 August 2015Naturalunder an acreGlacier National ParkBELTON HILLS
3 August 1999Smokingunder an acreGlacier National ParkOLD BRIDGE

Every fire recorded in Flathead 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

6 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Belton Chalets4.5 miles1978
Headquarters Historic District4.7 miles1996
West Entrance Station5.0 miles1996
Loneman Fire Lookout5.1 miles1986
Camas Creek Cutoff Road5.3 miles2014
Howes' Lake McDonald Cottage Sites Historic District5.3 miles2008

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 01000037 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Flathead CountyAll 168 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.