Margaret McCarthy Homestead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

One of 168 National Register listings published here for Flathead County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.

Sources: 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.
Listed as. McCarthy, Margaret, Homestead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Glacier National Park, Big Prairie, 59928
When was it listed? July 1988
Category. building
Also known as. Settlement on the North Fork of the Flathead River, Glacier National Park TR
Census division. Glacier National Park
National Register reference number. 88001095 - 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

45 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Margaret McCarthy Homestead between 1992 and 2020, burning about 19 acres in total. 34 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	34
Arson/incendiarism	4
Debris and open burning	4
Recreation and ceremony	3

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
6 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	MUD MEADOW
6 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	COVEY
25 September 2008	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	GUEST RANCH FIRE
23 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Flathead National Forest	VANDERSCHAF
10 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	ASHLEY
9 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Flathead National Forest	HAWK CREEK
9 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	ROUND PRAIRIE
8 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Flathead National Forest	MOOSE FLATS

Every fire 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
McCarthy Homestead Cabin	under 500 feet	1986
Charlie Schoenberger Homestead	under 500 feet	1988
Johnnie Walsh's Guest Lodge	0.3 miles	1988
Johnnie Walsh Homestead	0.7 miles	1988
William Raftery Homestead	1.4 miles	1988
Anton Schoenberger Homestead	1.4 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88001095 in Record Group 79.
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.