Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
From the record
“The Missoula station in Missoula, Montana, was built by the Northern Pacific Railway in 1901. The current structure is the third depot built in Missoula by the Northern Pacific, which reached Missoula in 1883.”
Wikipedia article Missoula station (Northern Pacific Railway), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 90 National Register listings published here for Missoula County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.85000644- 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
520 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 520 fires within 5 miles of Northern Pacific Railroad Depot
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,254 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 7 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
282
Debris and open burning
130
Recreation and ceremony
47
Natural
24
Smoking
14
Equipment and vehicle use
7
Arson/incendiarism
7
Misuse of fire by a minor
3
Fireworks
2
Railroad operations and maintenance
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
17 workings within 5 miles of Northern Pacific Railroad Depot: 7 occurrences, 4 past producers, 4 producers, 1 unknown.
4 still produce. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Pumice. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Missoula, the town this property stands in, in 58 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 32 thunderstorm wind, 17 hail, 3 lightning, 2 dust devil.
The reports record 2 deaths and 3 injuries. 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.
A public report described torrential rain of approximately 20 minutes in duration and roadway ponding near Bernices Bakery around 1600MST; additionally, the roof of new annex started leaking.
Several large trees were uprooted and fell onto two cars and a house. The Missoula International Airport ASOS reported a gust to 48 mph while a sensor on top of Mount Sentinel recorded a 68 mph wind gust. A local power company reported at least 2,000 customers were without power for at least three hours.
Two transmission poles located in the South Hills area of Missoula were knocked out by the wind which caused a power outage. Multiple trees were pushed over by the wind including a 50 foot Ponderosa Pine tree that fell onto a home. A NWS employee reported that a Maple tree was snapped in half at the corner of Mount and Brooks Street.
Thunderstorms that moved from the Bitterroot Valley northward to the Missoula Valley, blew down two rotten cottonwood trees in Hamilton, and three trees in the city of Missoula.
A person from the public located in Missoula tweeted a photo of hail that appeared to be quarter size. There were multiple reports of nickel sized hail with some damage to gardens and vegetation. Intense rainfall was also produced by this storm, and the greater impact may have been street ponding.
A person from the public observed a prominent dust devil in northern Missoula. It formed ahead of showers that were tracking south to north in a very unstable environment. No damage was reported.
Thunderstorms winds blew part of the roof off the grandstand at the city fairgrounds. Roof damage was also reported at the Fine Arts center on the campus of the University of Missoula. A gust of 68 mph was recorded at the National Weather Service office in Missoula.
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.
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.
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