St. Ignatius Mission

Built in 1854. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“Ignatius Mission is a landmark Catholic mission located in St. It was founded in 1854 by Jesuit priests Pierre-Jean De Smet and Adrian Hoecken.”
Wikipedia article St. Ignatius Mission, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Lake County · listed in 1973 · category: Building · built in 1854.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · 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. About 0.1 mi. SE of MT 93 in St. Ignatius, St. Ignatius, 59865
When was it listed? June 1973
Category. building
Census division. Flathead Reservation
When was it built? 1854
National Register reference number. 73001053 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

154 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 154 fires within 5 miles of St. Ignatius Mission between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,299 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 10 were 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
Recreation and ceremony	81
Debris and open burning	19
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Natural	13
Arson/incendiarism	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Smoking	2
Fireworks	2

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
4 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Flathead Agency	MISSION5
28 September 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Flathead Agency	DAMBRUSH
26 September 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Flathead Agency	100 RD
23 September 2009	Recreation and ceremony	1.1 acres	Flathead Agency	DAM RIDGE
22 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Flathead Agency	MISSION DAM7
20 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Flathead Agency	MISSION DAM#14
17 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Flathead Agency	MISSIONDAM
15 September 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Flathead Agency	MISSION DAM #2

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of St. Ignatius Mission: 1 unknown. 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.

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

Every working recorded in Lake 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
	Fort Connah Site	6.3 miles	1982
	St. Joseph's Catholic Church	6.6 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73001053 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lake County	All 9 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.