Swan River Community Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

One of 168 National Register listings published here for Flathead County · listed in 2002 · category: Building.

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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 115 Swan River Rd., Swan River, 59911
When was it listed? May 2002
Category. building
Census division. Creston-Bigfork
National Register reference number. 02000567 - 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

206 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 206 fires within 5 miles of Swan River Community Hall between 1992 and 2020, burning about 200 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	96
Debris and open burning	55
Natural	14
Recreation and ceremony	12
Power generation/transmission/distribution	9
Smoking	6
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Arson/incendiarism	3
Fireworks	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	SOUTH WHITETAIL
8 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	BEAR CREEK
7 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	RIPPLING WATERS ROAD
7 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	not named
4 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	not named
3 September 2009	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	EAST ECHO LAKE
24 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	MILE MRK 29 HWY 35
23 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	UPPER JEWEL BASIN RD

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

3 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
Kearney Rapids Bridge	2.7 miles	1994
Swan River Bridge	3.2 miles	2015
McCarthy-Pederson Farm Historic District	6.8 miles	2006

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02000567 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.