Photograph of Morning Eagle — Photograph by Greg Willis from Denver, CO, usa, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

MORNING EAGLE (carvel-planked wooden vessel)

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.

From the record

“The Morning Eagle is a tour boat located on Lake Josephine in Glacier National Park. The vessel was constructed in 1945, by J.W.”
Wikipedia article Morning Eagle, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Glacier County · listed in 2018 · category: Structure.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

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. Josephine L., Glacier NP, Babb, 59434
When was it listed? July 2018
Category. structure
Also known as. Glacier National Park MPS, AD; Glacier National Park MPS
Census division. Glacier National Park
National Register reference number. 100002691 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

8 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of MORNING EAGLE (carvel-planked wooden vessel) between 1993 and 2017, burning about 23 acres in total. 7 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	7
Fireworks	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
20 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	CRACKER
7 August 1993	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	CHALET
25 August 2000	Natural	22 acres	Glacier National Park	GRINNEL POINT
5 July 2007	Fireworks	under an acre	Glacier National Park	MANY GLACIER
23 July 2000	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	PTARMIGAN
2 July 1996	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	WEEPING
15 July 1995	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	HOPE
11 July 2017	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	BOULDER

Every fire recorded in Glacier County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of MORNING EAGLE (carvel-planked wooden vessel): 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper. 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
	Cracker Lake Mine	Copper	Prospect

Every working 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

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
Many Glacier Campground Camptender's Cabin	0.7 miles	1996
Swiftcurrent Auto Camp Historic District	0.8 miles	1996
Many Glacier Hotel Historic District	1.0 miles	1976
Many Glacier Barn and Bunkhouse	1.5 miles	1996
Glacier National Park Tourist Trails-Inside Trail, South Circle, North Circle	4.7 miles	1996
Logan Pass Visitor Center	6.6 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100002691 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.