Bull Head Lodge and Studio

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“Bull Head Lodge and Studio, located off Going-to-the-Sun Road near Apgar in Flathead County, Montana was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.”
Wikipedia article Bull Head Lodge and Studio, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 168 National Register listings published here for Flathead County · listed in 1984 · 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Off Going-to-the-Sun-Rd., Apgar, 59936
When was it listed? February 1984
Category. building
Census division. Glacier National Park
National Register reference number. 84002465 - 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

34 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Bull Head Lodge and Studio between 1992 and 2019, burning about 10 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 1 was 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	11
Recreation and ceremony	6
Smoking	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Fireworks	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Debris and open burning	1
Other causes	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
11 September 1992	Smoking	under an acre	Glacier National Park	INSIDE
8 August 2017	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	SNYDER
8 August 2009	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	LIME SPRINGS
8 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Glacier National Park	MCDONALD CREEK
6 August 2017	Fireworks	under an acre	Blackfeet Agency	DUMP ROAD
31 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Flathead National Forest	BELTON
30 August 2015	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	BELTON HILLS
3 August 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Glacier National Park	OLD BRIDGE

Every fire recorded in Flathead County

Storms near this property

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Apgar, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2013: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Apgar	$8,000	A Glacier National Park official reported several cars damaged from downed trees. They also reported that there were several areas with rocks on the road partially blocking lanes, but no major landslide activity. Approximately 22 miles to the northwest in Polebridge, the RAWS sensor measured a wind gust to 50 mph at 4:50 pm MDT.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Apgar	-	Wind gusts over 60 mph were estimated due to several trees 1 to 2 feet in diameter being knock down near Apgar. In addition a dozen trees approximately 1 foot in diameter were knocked down along Lake McDonald.

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.

Listed places nearby

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Sherwood Lodge	0.3 miles	2008
Camas Creek Cutoff Road	0.5 miles	2014
Howes' Lake McDonald Cottage Sites Historic District	0.6 miles	2008
Camas Creek Cutoff Road	0.8 miles	2014
North Fork Road	1.1 miles	1996
Fish Creek Bay Boathouse	1.5 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84002465 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.