Flathead National Forest Backcountry Administrative Facilities

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

From the record

One of 168 National Register listings published here for Flathead County · listed in 2014 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Flathead Natl. Forest, Hungry Horse, 59936
When was it listed? December 2014
Category. district
Census division. South Fork
National Register reference number. 14001047 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

20 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Flathead National Forest Backcountry Administrative Facilities between 1996 and 2018, burning about 19,540 acres in total. 20 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	20

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
22 September 1999	Natural	8.0 acres	Flathead National Forest	CATHREDRAL PEAK
17 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Flathead National Forest	MID CREEK
10 September 2012	Natural	5,011 acres	Flathead National Forest	WALL CREEK
6 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Flathead National Forest	BLACK BEAR MOUNTAIN
6 August 2003	Natural	11,213 acres	Flathead National Forest	MID
5 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Flathead National Forest	CATHEDRAL
5 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Flathead National Forest	MEADOW MOUNTAIN
5 August 2000	Natural	60 acres	Flathead National Forest	WALL CREEK

Every fire recorded in Flathead County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Flathead National Forest Backcountry Administrative Facilities: 1 prospect, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Zinc, Diatomite. 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
Black Bear Creek	Diatomite	Unknown
Helen Creek Occurence	Zinc, Barium-Barite	Prospect
Glacier Prospect	Barium-Barite	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Flathead County

Storms near this property

3 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hungry Horse, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2006 and 2020: 2 hail, 1 flash 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 2020	Hail	Hungry Horse	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Hungry Horse	-	no account filed
June 2006	Flash Flood	Hungry Horse	-	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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14001047 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.
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.