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One of 29 National Register listings published here for Glacier County · listed in 2017 · category: Structure.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
LITTLE CHIEF (boat)
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. Two Medicine L., Glacier NP, East Glacier Park, 59434
- When was it listed? December 2017
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Glacier National Park MPS, AD; Glacier National Park MPS
- Census division. Glacier National Park
- National Register reference number. 100001897 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
41 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of LITTLE CHIEF (boat) between 1992 and 2016, burning about 9 acres in total. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 20 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Blackfeet Agency | STUMP FIRE |
| 8 August 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Glacier National Park | DRY FORK |
| 7 August 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Blackfeet Agency | BLUE FIRE |
| 7 August 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Blackfeet Agency | ANOTHER DAM FIRE |
| 7 August 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Blackfeet Agency | GRANOLA FIRE |
| 7 August 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Blackfeet Agency | MARSHMALLOW FIRE |
| 6 August 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Blackfeet Agency | GLACIER |
| 6 August 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Blackfeet Agency | REDHEAD |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of LITTLE CHIEF (boat): 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this property
5 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Glacier Park, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2004 and 2019: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2019 | Flood | East Glacier Park | - | MT DOT reported floodwater on US-2, 3-miles west of East Glacier. Exact duration of flooding unknown. |
| July 2008 | Hail | East Glacier Park | - | A severe thunderstorm dropped .75 inch diameter hail at East Glacier Park 2N. |
| July 2006 | Hail | East Glacier Park | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | East Glacier Park | - | no account filed |
| September 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Glacier Park | - | 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
3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Swanson Boathouse | under 500 feet | 1996 |
 | Two Medicine Campground Camptender's Cabin | 0.4 miles | 1996 |
| Glacier Park Women's Club | 7.5 miles | 2019 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100001897 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.
- Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
- 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.