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One of 168 National Register listings published here for Flathead County · listed in 2008 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Wheeler Camp (Boundary Increase and Additional Documentation)
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 5 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. North end of Lake McDonald, Glacier National Park, Apgar, 59936
- When was it listed? October 2008
- Category. district
- Also known as. Glacier National Park MRA (AD); Glacier National Park MPS; Glacier National Park MPS
- Census division. Glacier National Park
- National Register reference number. 08001015 - 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 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Wheeler Camp (Boundary Increase and Additional Documentation) between 1992 and 2018, burning about 31,668 acres in total. 22 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 | 22 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Glacier National Park | LABOUR |
| 6 September 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Glacier National Park | SNYDER |
| 5 September 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Glacier National Park | REBECKA |
| 22 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Glacier National Park | FLAT ROCK |
| 1 September 2012 | Natural | 160 acres | Glacier National Park | AVALANCHE |
| 1 September 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Glacier National Park | AVALANCHE |
| 9 August 2017 | Natural | 1.5 acres | Glacier National Park | ROGERS MOUNTAIN |
| 9 August 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Glacier National Park | VAUGHT |
Storms near this property
2 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Apgar, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2013: 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Apgar | $8,000 | A Glacier National Park official reported several cars damaged from downed trees. They also reported that there were several areas with rocks on the road partially blocking lanes, but no major landslide activity. Approximately 22 miles to the northwest in Polebridge, the RAWS sensor measured a wind gust to 50 mph at 4:50 pm MDT. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Apgar | - | Wind gusts over 60 mph were estimated due to several trees 1 to 2 feet in diameter being knock down near Apgar. In addition a dozen trees approximately 1 foot in diameter were knocked down along Lake McDonald. |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Upper Lake McDonald Ranger Station Historic District | 0.2 miles | 1986 |
 | Burton and Lulu Wheeler Cabin | 0.3 miles | 1998 |
| Alice Beck Cabin | 0.8 miles | 2008 | |
| Thomas J. Walsh Lodge | 1.0 miles | 1998 | |
 | Greve's Tourist Cabins | 1.2 miles | 2008 |
 | Lake McDonald Lodge Coffee Shop | 1.4 miles | 2008 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 08001015 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.
- 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.