BlockFrom the record
One of 29 National Register listings published here for Glacier County · listed in 2016 · category: Structure.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
Rising Wolf
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.
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. Saint Mary Lake,Glacier National Park, St. Mary, 59434
- When was it listed? November 2016
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Glacier National Park MPS; Glacier National Park MPS
- Census division. Glacier National Park
- National Register reference number. 16000772 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
12 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Rising Wolf between 1994 and 2013, burning about 34,240 acres in total. 8 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 | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 August 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Glacier National Park | GOAT |
| 5 August 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Blackfeet Agency | SWAMP FIRE |
| 30 August 1998 | Natural | 15 acres | Glacier National Park | RED EAGLE |
| 30 August 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Glacier National Park | TWO DOG |
| 11 August 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Glacier National Park | RISING SUN |
| 31 July 1996 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Glacier National Park | RED EAGLE |
| 29 July 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Blackfeet Agency | 3-MILE II FIRE |
| 28 July 2006 | Natural | 34,203 acres | Glacier National Park | RED EAGLE |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Roes Creek Campground Camptender's Cabin | 0.3 miles | 1996 |
 | Rising Sun Auto Camp | 0.5 miles | 1996 |
 | Sun Camp Fireguard Cabin | 2.9 miles | 1999 |
 | St. Mary Utility Area Historic District | 5.4 miles | 1996 |
 | Glacier National Park Tourist Trails-Inside Trail, South Circle, North Circle | 5.6 miles | 1996 |
 | Saint Mary Visitor Center, Entrance Station and Checking Stations | 5.6 miles | 2008 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 16000772 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.