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Photograph of Fort Connah Site
Photograph by Magicpiano, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Fort Connah Site

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Fort Connah Site is a site on the National Register of Historic Places located on U.S. It was added to the Register on April 28, 1982.”

Wikipedia article Fort Connah Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Lake 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 listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. US 93, Post Creek, 59865
  • When was it listed? April 1982
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Flathead Reservation
  • National Register reference number. 82003173 - 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

59 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Fort Connah Site between 1992 and 2020, burning about 129 acres in total. 7 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
Debris and open burning18
Recreation and ceremony14
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking1

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
4 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreFlathead Agency2 CREEK LN
29 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlathead AgencyMCDONALD
20 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlathead AgencyMCDONALD
2 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlathead AgencyASHLEY
18 September 2013Naturalunder an acreFlathead AgencyTWO CREEK LANE
12 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlathead AgencyOLSON
1 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlathead AgencyMCDONALD#2
9 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLake CountyNARROWS ISLAND

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 Fort Connah Site: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this property

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Post Creek, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2022: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2022HailPost Creek-no account filed

Every storm 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 PropertyDistance Listed
St. Joseph's Catholic Church5.3 miles1999
St. Ignatius Mission6.3 miles1973

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82003173 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lake CountyAll 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.
  • 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.