Chief Mountain Border Station and Quarters

Built in 1939 (National Park Service rustic). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

“The Chief Mountain Border Station and Quarters is a customs station on the Canada-United States border in Glacier County, Montana. Located on Montana Highway 17, the station is operated seasonally, primarily for tourist traffic between Glacier National Park in Montana and Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta.”
Wikipedia article Chief Mountain Border Station and Quarters, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Glacier County · listed in 2008 · category: Building · built in 1939, National Park Service rustic.

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 3 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. MT 17 at Canadian Border, Glacier National Park, Babb, 59434
When was it listed? May 2008
Category. building
Census division. Glacier National Park
When was it built? 1939
Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
National Register reference number. 06000744 - 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

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Chief Mountain Border Station and Quarters in 2007, burning about 4 acres in total. 1 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	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
23 July 2007	Natural	3.6 acres	Glacier National Park	LEE RIDGE

Every fire recorded in Glacier County

Storms near this property

11 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Babb, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 2004 and 2022: 6 hail, 4 heavy rain, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2022	Heavy Rain	Babb	-	Gtom8 19.7 nw Logan Pass.
July 2014	Hail	Babb	-	Large hail, measuring 1.00 inches (quarter sized), was reported.
June 2014	Heavy Rain	Babb	-	Heavy rain of about 1.5 inches since midnight was reported.
June 2014	Heavy Rain	Babb	-	Heavy rain of about 2.25 inches since midnight was reported.
June 2014	Heavy Rain	Babb	-	Heavy rain of about 4.25 inches since midnight was reported. Elevation 4500 ft.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Babb	-	High winds estimated at 52KT (60MPH) were reported 6 mi NNE of Babb, MT.
July 2013	Hail	Babb	-	Hail measuring 1.00 inches (quarter sized) was reported 6 mi NNE of Babb, MT.
July 2013	Hail	Babb	-	Hail measuring 1.50 inches (ping pong ball sized) was reported 6 mi NNE of Babb, MT.
August 2013	Hail	Babb	-	Hail measuring 1.00 inches (quarter sized) was reported 1 miles WNW of Babb, MT.
June 2006	Hail	Babb	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Babb	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Glacier 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
	Lee Creek Snowshoe Cabin	1.8 miles	2001

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06000744 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Glacier County	All 29 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.
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.