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One of 90 National Register listings published here for Missoula County · listed in 1977 · category: Site.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Fort Fizzle Site
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
The listing
- Address. 5 mi. W of Lolo, Lolo, 59847
- When was it listed? July 1977
- Category. site
- Census division. Lolo
- National Register reference number. 77000821 - 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
174 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 174 fires within 5 miles of Fort Fizzle Site between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,190 acres in total. 60 started naturally. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 60 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 48 |
| Debris and open burning | 36 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 18 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Lolo National Forest | WESTERMAN |
| 5 September 2001 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Southwestern Land Office | not named |
| 5 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southwestern Land Office | WARDEN |
| 4 September 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Southwestern Land Office | ROSSIGNOL |
| 3 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Lolo National Forest | BLUE MOUNTAIN III |
| 3 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Southwestern Land Office | LOWER MORMON |
| 28 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missoula County | not named |
| 27 September 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Lolo National Forest | BLUE MOUNTAIN |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 13 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Fort Fizzle Site: 6 occurrences, 3 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Gold, Silver, Silica. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black Diamond Mica Mine | Mica | Producer | ||
| Iron-Copper Occurrence | Copper, Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Schroeder | Quartz | Occurrence | ||
| Lawyers Combination | Copper, Silver | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Lawyers Combination | Silver, Copper | Prospect | ||
| Lolo Quartz Deposit | Silica | Past Producer | Quartz | |
| Maclay | Silica | Unknown | ||
| Chickaman Mine | Gold, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Lolo Creek Placer | Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Sherman & Lattimer Claim | Copper, Gold | Unknown |
Storms near this property
19 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lolo, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 9 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lolo | $5,000 | Multiple car crashes were reported on Interstate-90 near Missoula as a thunderstorm with strong winds and heavy rain moved through. A wind gust of 52 mph was recorded at the Missoula International Airport, with the main core of the storm passing to the east of the airport. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lolo | $2,000 | The Missoula dispatch reported a lot of tree limbs down around town with numerous power lines down. A couple of lightning strikes started fires with one strike to a house in Missoula and a field in Florence. A private weather sensor located southeast of Lolo recorded a wind gust to 60 mph ahead of the main thunderstorm cells. |
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lolo | $1,000 | NWS employee reported a power outage, and tree limbs 5 to 6 inches in diameter broke off. Estimated winds of 50 mph. |
| August 2017 | Hail | Lolo | - | Local Firefighters on the Lolo Peak wildfire reported quarter sized hail with no damages. |
| May 2014 | Flood | Lolo | - | The USGS Bitterroot River gauge at Missoula reported a peak height of 11.11 feet (11 ft. is the minor flood stage) and peak discharge rate of 17,300 cubic feet per second at 8:30 pm MDT on May 25. A NWS employee reported field flooding between Lolo and Missoula. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lolo | - | A NWS employee reported an estimated 60 mph wind gust just north of Lolo, Montana. |
| July 2011 | Hail | Lolo | - | A weather service employee measured 1.00 hail at his house. |
| July 2010 | Hail | Lolo | - | A trained spotter reported quarter sized hail in the Lolo Creek area. |
| August 2010 | Heavy Rain | Lolo | - | A spotter reported 0.30 inches of rain in 15 minutes. |
| May 1998 | Hail | Lolo | - | 3/4 inch hail reported 2 miles south of Lolo. |
| July 1995 | Hail | Lolo | - | Cars damaged. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lolo | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Lolo | - | no account filed |
| September 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lolo | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lolo | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Lolo | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lolo | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Lolo | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lolo | - | no account filed |
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Traveler's Rest | 5.0 miles | 1966 |
 | Carlton Community Church | 6.3 miles | 2011 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 77000821 in Record Group 79. |
| Missoula County | All 90 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.