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Photograph of Bowman Lake Patrol Cabin
Photograph by National Parek Service inventory, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Bowman Lake Patrol Cabin

Built in 1934 (rustic architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Bowman Lake Patrol Cabin in Glacier National Park, Montana, United States, is a rustic back-country log cabin. Built in 1934, the cabin has a single room, with a front porch extension to create a shelter from snowfall.”

Wikipedia article Bowman Lake Patrol Cabin, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 168 National Register listings published here for Flathead County · listed in 1986 · category: Building · built in 1934, rustic architecture.

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. Lower end of Bowman Lake 1/2 mi. E of Bowman Lake Ranger Station, West Glacier, 59928
  • When was it listed? February 1986
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Glacier National Park MRA
  • Census division. Glacier National Park
  • When was it built? 1934
  • Architectural style. rustic architecture
  • National Register reference number. 86000340 - 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

39 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Bowman Lake Patrol Cabin between 1994 and 2019, burning about 12 acres in total. 39 started naturally. None 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
Natural39

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
6 September 1997Naturalunder an acreGlacier National ParkCOVEY
12 September 1995Naturalunder an acreGlacier National ParkQUARTZ RDG
8 August 2017Naturalunder an acreGlacier National ParkPATROL
8 August 2017Naturalunder an acreGlacier National ParkGRACE
8 August 2017Naturalunder an acreGlacier National ParkQUARTZ LAKE
8 August 2009Naturalunder an acreGlacier National ParkQUARTZ RIDGE
6 August 1999Naturalunder an acreGlacier National ParkBOWMAN
5 August 2009Naturalunder an acreGlacier National ParkNUMA RIDGE

Every fire recorded in Flathead 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 Bowman Lake Patrol Cabin: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Calcium. 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 Barite & CalciteBarium-Barite, CalciumProspect

Every working recorded in Flathead County

Storms near this property

9 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Glacier, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2004 and 2015: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 2 heavy rain. 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
November 2006Flash FloodWest Glacier$7,000,000The Associated Press reported 7.0 million in damages. Glacier National Park received 9.1 of rainfall in 36 hours. An additional .5 to 1.0 million in damages occurred to the park's trails.
February 2015Heavy RainWest Glacier-A rockslide was reported along US-2 just east of West Glacier, MT. The eastbound lane was blocked by softball-sized rocks. Road crews cleared debris and the road was usable again an hour later.
July 2014Heavy RainWest Glacier-The Glacier National Park RAWS reported 0.76 of rainfall in one hour. Other heavy rainfall reports include 0.78 40 min. ending 4:10 pm MDT 3 miles east of Creston and 0.65 in one hour via Hungry Horse RAWS at 6:11 pm MDT.
May 2013FloodWest Glacier-Minor flooding occurred to agricultural lands in the low lying areas adjacent to the middle fork of the Flathead River near West Glacier.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindWest Glacier-no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindWest Glacier-no account filed
May 2006FloodWest Glacier-no account filed
June 2006HailWest Glacier-no account filed
September 2004HailWest Glacier-no account filed

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Bowman Lake Road0.5 miles1996
Polebridge to Numa Ridge Phoneline1.7 miles1996
Quartz Lake Patrol Cabin2.6 miles1986
Numa Ridge Fire Lookout3.9 miles1986
William Raftery Homestead4.7 miles1988
Anton Schoenberger Homestead4.7 miles1988

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 86000340 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Flathead CountyAll 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.