Kelly's Camp Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

“Kelly's Camp is a small district of vacation cabins on the west shore of Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. Kelly's Camp consists of twelve log buildings along the western shore of the lake.”
Wikipedia article Kelly's Camp Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 168 National Register listings published here for Flathead County · listed in 2009 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 12 buildingss, 1 site, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. S. of Kelly's Camp Rd. between Kelly's Creek and by S. of cabins, Glacier National Park, Lake McDonald, 59936
When was it listed? December 2009
Category. district
Also known as. Recreational Camps on Lake McDonald, MT
Census division. Glacier National Park
National Register reference number. 08001224 - 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

29 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Kelly's Camp Historic District between 1992 and 2018, burning about 31,512 acres in total. 27 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	27
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 2014	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	SNYDER
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
9 August 2017	Natural	1.5 acres	Glacier National Park	ROGERS MOUNTAIN
9 August 2017	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	VAUGHT
17 August 1992	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	ROGERS PEAK

Every fire recorded in Flathead County

Storms near this property

4 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake McDonald, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2004 and 2025: 2 heavy rain, 1 flash flood, 1 debris flow. 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 2025	Heavy Rain	Lake Mcdonald	-	Flooding was reported on the Highline Trail. People needed to be rescued, but ongoing thunderstorms prevented helicopter operations.
September 2021	Debris Flow	Lake Mcdonald	-	Backpackers camping at the edge of Lake Ellen Wilson in Glacier National Park were awakened by torrential rainfall and the clapping of thunder around midnight. Bias-corrected radar data estimated over half an inch of rain fell in one hour through 1 am on the 11th. The rain continued at moderate intensities for a few more hours and ended by late morning with an radar estimated total rainfall amount of over 2 inches. The campers reported boulders rolling down Mount Jackson into the lake throughout the night with 6 new waterfalls cutting off their exit trail towards Sperry Chalet. Three backpackers had to bed down at Gunsight Pass for an extra night due to all the rock slides and fast-moving water through the trails.
July 2009	Flash Flood	Lake Mcdonald	-	Glacier National Park officials reported heavy rain that caused rock and debris flows on the Going to the Sun Road. One rock slide sent a rock through a car window.
June 2004	Heavy Rain	Lake Mcdonald	-	no account filed

Every storm 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
Lake McDonald Lodge Historic District	1.2 miles	1978
Lake McDonald Lodge Coffee Shop	1.2 miles	2008
Lake McDonald Lodge	1.2 miles	1987
Burton and Lulu Wheeler Cabin	1.3 miles	1998
Greve's Tourist Cabins	1.4 miles	2008
Wheeler Camp (Boundary Increase and Additional Documentation)	1.5 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08001224 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.