Glacier County Courthouse

Built in 1939 (PWA Moderne). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

From the record

“Glacier County Courthouse, a PWA Moderne-style courthouse at Cut Bank in Glacier County, Montana, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.”
Wikipedia article Glacier County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Glacier County · listed in 2013 · category: Building · built in 1939, PWA Moderne.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 512 E. Main St., Cut Bank, 59427
When was it listed? June 2013
Category. building
Census division. Cut Bank
When was it built? 1939
Architectural style. PWA Moderne
National Register reference number. 13000446 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

61 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Glacier County Courthouse between 1992 and 2019, burning about 819 acres in total. 4 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
Debris and open burning	17
Fireworks	11
Railroad operations and maintenance	7
Smoking	5
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Natural	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Other causes	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Firearms and explosives 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
5 September 2009	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Blackfeet Agency	OIL PUMP FIRE
28 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Blackfeet Agency	SEVILLE FIRE
15 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Blackfeet Agency	CARTER OIL ROAD
9 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Blackfeet Agency	AIRPORT
4 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Blackfeet Agency	SEVILLEFIR
31 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Blackfeet Agency	STAR CRAFT
2 August 2018	Smoking	under an acre	Blackfeet Agency	LONG HORN
19 August 2007	Natural	49 acres	Blackfeet Agency	ANDERSON

Every fire recorded in Glacier County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Glacier County Courthouse: 19 unknowns. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Glacier County

Storms near this property

5 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cut Bank, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1993 and 1996: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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 1994	Tornado (F1)	Cut Bank	$500,000	no account filed
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Cut Bank	$5,000	no account filed
July 1994	Hail	Cut Bank	$5,000	no account filed
May 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Cut Bank	$5,000	no account filed
July 1996	Hail	Cut Bank	-	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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	River View Dairy Barn	1.3 miles	2022
	Cut Bank Municipal Airport and Army Air Force Base	3.4 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 13000446 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.