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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
Howes' Lake McDonald Cottage Sites Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. N. side of Apgar Loop Rd., Glacier National Park, West Glacier, 59936
- When was it listed? December 2008
- Category. district
- Also known as. Recreational Camps on Lake McDonald, MT
- Census division. Glacier National Park
- National Register reference number. 08001223 - 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
35 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Howes' Lake McDonald Cottage Sites Historic District between 1992 and 2019, burning about 10 acres in total. 10 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 2014 | Natural | under an acre | Glacier National Park | SNYDER |
| 11 September 1992 | Smoking | under an acre | Glacier National Park | INSIDE |
| 8 August 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Glacier National Park | SNYDER |
| 8 August 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Glacier National Park | LIME SPRINGS |
| 8 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Glacier National Park | MCDONALD CREEK |
| 6 August 2017 | Fireworks | under an acre | Blackfeet Agency | DUMP ROAD |
| 31 August 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Flathead National Forest | BELTON |
| 30 August 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Glacier National Park | BELTON HILLS |
Storms near this property
9 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Glacier, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2004 and 2015: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 2 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2006 | Flash Flood | West Glacier | $7,000,000 | The Associated Press reported 7.0 million in damages. Glacier National Park received 9.1 of rainfall in 36 hours. An additional .5 to 1.0 million in damages occurred to the park's trails. |
| February 2015 | Heavy Rain | West Glacier | - | A rockslide was reported along US-2 just east of West Glacier, MT. The eastbound lane was blocked by softball-sized rocks. Road crews cleared debris and the road was usable again an hour later. |
| July 2014 | Heavy Rain | West Glacier | - | The Glacier National Park RAWS reported 0.76 of rainfall in one hour. Other heavy rainfall reports include 0.78 40 min. ending 4:10 pm MDT 3 miles east of Creston and 0.65 in one hour via Hungry Horse RAWS at 6:11 pm MDT. |
| May 2013 | Flood | West Glacier | - | Minor flooding occurred to agricultural lands in the low lying areas adjacent to the middle fork of the Flathead River near West Glacier. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Glacier | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Glacier | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Flood | West Glacier | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | West Glacier | - | no account filed |
| September 2004 | Hail | West Glacier | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Camas Creek Cutoff Road | 0.4 miles | 2014 |
| Camas Creek Cutoff Road | 0.5 miles | 2014 |
| Bull Head Lodge and Studio | 0.6 miles | 1984 | |
| Sherwood Lodge | 0.8 miles | 2008 | |
 | West Entrance Station | 1.4 miles | 1996 |
 | North Fork Road | 1.4 miles | 1996 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 08001223 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.