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Holy Family Mission

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Holy Family Mission, east of Browning in Glacier County, Montana, was founded in 1886. It opened in 1890 and served for 53 years as the center of missionary Catholicism on the Blackfeet Reservation operated by the Jesuit Order.”

Wikipedia article Holy Family Mission (Glacier County, Montana), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Glacier County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • Address. E of Browning, Browning, 59417
  • When was it listed? June 1982
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Blackfeet Reservation
  • National Register reference number. 82003170 - 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

47 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Holy Family Mission between 1992 and 2019, burning about 202 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony6
Natural5
Smoking5
Arson/incendiarism2
Other causes2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBlackfeet AgencyHOBO
22 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBlackfeet Agency2MED
16 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreBlackfeet AgencyCAR
14 September 2008Smokingunder an acreBlackfeet AgencyHIGHWAY 101
12 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBlackfeet AgencyBULLCALF
12 September 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBlackfeet AgencyBONFIRE
8 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBlackfeet Agency13-P FIRE
31 August 1992Natural2.0 acresBlackfeet AgencyKIPPS BARN

Every fire recorded in Glacier 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 Holy Family Mission: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Titanium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unnamed LocationIron, TitaniumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Glacier County

Storms near this property

22 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Browning, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 13 hail, 5 heavy rain, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2025Thunderstorm WindBrowning-Mesonet station MTBWG Browning measured a 61 mph wind gust.
June 2025HailBrowning-Hail up to walnut size was reported.
June 2025HailBrowning-Browning BIA reported large hail. Location is estimated.
June 2022Heavy RainBrowning-Browning Raws bgrm8.
June 2022Heavy RainBrowning-Bgrm8 Browning raws.
July 2022HailBrowning-Public reports via social media of 1.5 inch hail. Multiple reports of broken windows in the city of Browning.
August 2014Heavy RainBrowning-Heavy rain, measuring 1.99 inches storm total, was reported.
June 2014Heavy RainBrowning-Heavy rain of about 1.59 inches since midnight was reported at the Browning RAWS.
June 2013HailBrowning-Severe hail measuring 1.75 inches (approximately golf ball sized) was reported in Browning, MT.
June 2013HailBrowning-Severe hail measuring 1.75 inches (approximately golf ball sized) was reported 1 mile S of Browning, MT.
June 2013HailBrowning-Severe hail measuring 1.00 inches (approximately quarter sized) was reported 7 miles NNE of Browning, MT.
June 2013Heavy RainBrowning-Heavy rain of about 4 inches in 2 hours reported 8 mi W of Browning, MT.
June 2012HailBrowning-Hail measuring 1.75 inches was reported in Browning.
July 2010Funnel CloudBrowning-A funnel cloud was observed by law enforcement personnel at Browning 22SE. It lasted a minute or two.
July 2010HailBrowning-A thunderstorm dropped 1.75 inch diameter hail at Browning. The hail shattered the windshield of a police cruiser.
July 2010HailBrowning-A thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Browning 1S. Hail drifts one foot deep were reported.
July 2010HailBrowning-A thunderstorm dropped 1.5 inch diameter hail at Browning 7NNE.
July 2009Funnel CloudBrowning-A funnel cloud was reported by law enforcement at Browning 10E.
July 2009HailBrowning-A severe thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Browning 10E.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindBrowning-A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust between 70 and 80 mph near Browning. Numerous tepees and trailers were over turned at the camp ground.
June 2006HailBrowning-no account filed
August 2005HailBrowning-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Glacier 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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 82003170 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Glacier CountyAll 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.
  • 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.