Stillwater Ranger Station Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.

From the record

One of 168 National Register listings published here for Flathead County · listed in 1981 · category: District.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 7 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. U.S. 93, Olney, 59927
When was it listed? July 1981
Category. district
Census division. Whitefish
National Register reference number. 81000340 - 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

152 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 152 fires within 5 miles of Stillwater Ranger Station Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 157 acres in total. 54 started naturally. 3 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	54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	41
Recreation and ceremony	27
Debris and open burning	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Arson/incendiarism	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Fireworks	1
Smoking	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
9 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	not named
9 September 2007	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	not named
8 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	not named
7 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	LUPFER FIRE
4 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	STILLWATER RIVER #2
29 September 1996	Debris and open burning	92 acres	Northwestern Land Office	MEADOW LAKE, INCL.
18 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	not named
1 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Flathead County

Storms near this property

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Olney, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2003 and 2011: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
July 2011	Hail	Olney	-	A trained spotter estimated 1.50 inch hail.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Olney	-	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 81000340 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.
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.