Monture Guard Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.

From the record

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Powell County · listed in 2023 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Lolo NF, Seeley Lake Ranger Dist., Ovando, 59854
When was it listed? January 2023
Category. district
Census division. Helmville
National Register reference number. 100008550 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

77 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Monture Guard Station between 1992 and 2016, burning about 3,883 acres in total. 57 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	57
Recreation and ceremony	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Debris and open burning	4

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
9 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	MONTURE BEEHIVE
5 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	RED FIRE
25 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	CAVE POINT
23 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	BEAR SHOT
22 September 2000	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Southwestern Land Office	not named
22 September 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	MONTURE CREEK
13 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	DUNHAM BRIDGE
1 September 2011	Natural	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	SHANLEY RIDGE

Every fire recorded in Powell County

Storms near this property

14 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ovando, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 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
May 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Ovando	$2,000	A thunderstorm near Ovando showed a bowing structure, indicative of strong outflow winds. Velocity on the lowest radar tilt showed winds near 50 knots. Mid-altitude radial convergence was also present, adding confidence to severe wind gust potential. A report was received that the sign to the Ovando Store was blown over.
July 2021	Hail	Ovando	-	A long-lived severe storm continued to produce 1 hail east of Seeley Lake. Additionally, it was reported the storm was producing heavy rain and winds up to 40 mph.
July 2019	Hail	Ovando	-	A thunderstorm produced half-dollar-sized hail in Ovando, with a truck sustaining hail dents on the roof of the vehicle.
July 2014	Heavy Rain	Ovando	-	The mesonet station EW4329 located 1 mile west-northwest of Elliston reported 0.74 of rain in one hour while the mesonet station TT234 located 7.7 miles north of Ovando reported 0.50 of heavy rain in an hour.
June 2012	Heavy Rain	Ovando	-	In 8 minutes 0.25 inches of rain fell.
June 2010	Hail	Ovando	-	An employee at Trixi's Bar in Ovando estimated nickel size hail and heavy rain.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Ovando	-	A trained spotter reported a cottonwood tree fallen across the road.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Ovando	-	A trained spotter reported estimated wind gusts of 60 MPH. Smaller tree branches were down with the largest branch estimated at four inches in diameter.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Ovando	-	Large tree was blown over onto the deck of a home. The tree also knocked down several powerlines as well.
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Ovando	-	no account filed
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Ovando	-	no account filed
August 2003	Hail	Ovando	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Ovando	-	no account filed
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Ovando	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Powell 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100008550 in Record Group 79.
Powell County	All 20 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.