Camp Paxson Boy Scout Camp (24MO77)

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“Camp Paxson Boy Scout Camp, located on the western shore of Seeley Lake, Lolo National Forest, Montana, is on the National Register of Historic Places. It started out as a summer camp for the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), and is named in honor of Montana western painter Edgar Samuel Paxson.”
Wikipedia article Camp Paxson Boy Scout Camp, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 90 National Register listings published here for Missoula County · listed in 1986 · 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 20 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Seeley Lake, Lolo National Forest, 59868
When was it listed? March 1986
Category. building
Census division. Seeley Lake-Blackfoot Valley
National Register reference number. 86000584 - 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

451 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 451 fires within 5 miles of Camp Paxson Boy Scout Camp (24MO77) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 295 acres in total. 135 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
Natural	135
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	100
Debris and open burning	87
Recreation and ceremony	61
Power generation/transmission/distribution	27
Fireworks	19
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Smoking	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
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 1998	Natural	under an acre	Southwestern Land Office	LOGGER BEAVER
7 September 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Southwestern Land Office	SOUTH HIGHLAND
7 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	BRUCE IN THE DUFF
7 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	PLACID LAKE ROAD
6 September 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Southwestern Land Office	LOOPING DREW CREEK
6 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Southwestern Land Office	HORSETRAIL
6 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	BIG RICE
5 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Southwestern Land Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Missoula 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Double Arrow Lookout	1.7 miles	2018
	Double Arrow Lodge	3.8 miles	2014

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86000584 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Missoula County	All 90 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.