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Photograph of Bull River Guard Station
Photograph by Forest Service Northern Region from Missoula, MT, USA, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Bull River Guard Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“The Bull River Guard Station, also known as Bull River Ranger Station, on the banks of the Bull River near its confluence with the E. Fork Bull River in the Kootenai National Forest, in Sanders County, Montana, was established in 1907.”

Wikipedia article Bull River Guard Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 23 National Register listings published here for Sanders County · listed in 1990 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Fires near this property

64 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Bull River Guard Station between 1992 and 2016, burning about 16,147 acres in total. 46 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
Natural46
Recreation and ceremony9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Debris and open burning1

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
8 September 2005Naturalunder an acreKootenai National ForestCOPPER II
5 September 2011Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKootenai National ForestBULL RIVER
5 September 2005Naturalunder an acreKootenai National ForestCOPPER
4 September 1998Naturalunder an acreKootenai National Forest-BERRAY MTN.
3 September 2005Naturalunder an acreKootenai National ForestNAPOLEON #2
3 September 2005Naturalunder an acreKootenai National ForestBERRY MOUNTAIN
18 September 1998Naturalunder an acreKootenai National ForestBASIN COPPER
13 September 2002Natural31 acresKootenai National ForestPOPLAR MTN

Every fire recorded in Sanders County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bull River Guard Station: 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Copper, Gold, Copper, Silver. 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
Copper GulchSilver, CopperUnknown1890
Freeman ProspectGold, Copper, SilverOccurrence

Every working recorded in Sanders County

Storms near this property

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Noxon, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2006: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1997Thunderstorm WindNoxon-Thunderstorm wind gusts up to 65 mph measured at Noxon school weather station. Numerous trees and power lines knocked down with power outages.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindNoxon-no account filed
May 2002Thunderstorm WindNoxon-no account filed
July 1998HailNoxon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sanders 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 90000990 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sanders CountyAll 23 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.