Harrison Lake Patrol Cabin

Built in 1928 (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 1928, National Park Service rustic.

Sources: 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. US 2, Glacier National Park, 59936
When was it listed? February 2001
Category. building
Census division. Glacier National Park
When was it built? 1928
Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
National Register reference number. 01000116 - 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

9 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Harrison Lake Patrol Cabin between 1992 and 2014, burning about 9,898 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
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Fireworks	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
9 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	WALTON
6 August 2014	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	LOWER NYACK
6 August 2010	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	NYACK
26 August 1992	Smoking	under an acre	Glacier National Park	HARRISON
25 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	HARRISON
18 August 2003	Natural	5,900 acres	Glacier National Park	HARRISON
18 August 2003	Natural	3,997 acres	Glacier National Park	CENTER
11 July 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Blackfeet Agency	DEVILS COR

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Loneman Fire Lookout	2.7 miles	1986
Lower Nyack Snowshoe Cabin	3.8 miles	1986
Sperry Chalets	5.5 miles	1977
Gunsight Pass Shelter	5.7 miles	1986
Lincoln Creek Snowshoe Cabin	6.0 miles	2001
Nyack Ranger Station Historic District	6.3 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01000116 in Record Group 79.
Flathead County	All 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.