Billy Kruse Cabin

Built in 1925. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.

From the record

One of 168 National Register listings published here for Flathead County · listed in 2021 · category: Building · built in 1925.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listed as. Kruse, Billy, Cabin - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 15920 North Fork Rd., Polebridge, 59928
When was it listed? October 2021
Category. building
Census division. Columbia Falls
When was it built? 1925
National Register reference number. 100007131 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

30 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Billy Kruse Cabin between 1992 and 2018, burning about 4,740 acres in total. 24 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	24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Other causes	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
3 September 2006	Natural	1.5 acres	Glacier National Park	STARVATION
2 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	650 acres	Glacier National Park	ELDER CREEK
8 August 1997	Natural	under an acre	Flathead National Forest	KINTLA ROAD
7 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Flathead National Forest	TEEPEE LAKE
7 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Flathead National Forest	TRAIL CREEK 1
7 August 2000	Natural	1.0 acres	Flathead National Forest	TRAIL CREEK #2
7 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	KINTLA TOM
6 August 1997	Natural	under an acre	Flathead National Forest	TRAIL CREEK

Every fire recorded in Flathead County

Storms near this property

3 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Polebridge, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2006: 2 hail, 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
June 2006	Flood	Polebridge	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Polebridge	-	no account filed
July 1996	Hail	Polebridge	-	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
Kishenehn Ranger Station Historic District	1.8 miles	1986
Wurtz Homestead	4.2 miles	1996
North Fork Road	4.8 miles	1996
Kintla Lake Ranger Station	5.1 miles	1986
Hornet Lookout	5.2 miles	1983
Ford Schoolhouse	5.7 miles	2022

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100007131 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.