Izaak Walton Inn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The Izaak Walton Inn is a historic inn in Essex, Montana, United States. It was originally built as the Izaak Walton Hotel in 1939 by the Addison Miller company under contract from the Great Northern Railway as a soup kitchen and lodgings for railway workers.”
Wikipedia article Izaak Walton Inn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 168 National Register listings published here for Flathead County · listed in 1985 · 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 as contributing to the listing.
Address. Off US 2 adjacent to RR in Essex, Essex, 59916
When was it listed? October 1985
Category. building
Census division. South Fork
Architectural style. Tudor Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 85003235 - 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

41 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Izaak Walton Inn between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,654 acres in total. 27 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
Natural	27
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Debris and open burning	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
8 September 2006	Natural	under an acre	Flathead National Forest	PAOLA
8 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Flathead National Forest	not named
2 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	SCALPLOCK
13 September 2011	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	PAOLA
1 September 2011	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	RAMPAGE 2
7 August 2017	Natural	under an acre	Flathead National Forest	MARION CREEK
5 August 1997	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	SCALPLOCK
4 August 2015	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	SCALPLOCK FIRE

Every fire recorded in Flathead County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Izaak Walton Inn: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Essex	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Essex Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Great Northern	Copper	Past Producer
Lippincott	Copper	Past Producer
Okedale	Copper	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Flathead County

Storms near this property

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Essex, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2008: 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 2008	Hail	Essex	-	Trained spotter in Essex reported 0.75 inch hail.

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

4 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
Walton Ranger Station Historic District	0.6 miles	1986
Scalplock Mountain Fire Lookout	2.3 miles	1986
Lower Park Creek Patrol Cabin	5.0 miles	1986
Fielding Snowshoe Patrol Cabin	7.2 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85003235 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.
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.