Continental Oil Company Warehouse and Garage

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

One of 168 National Register listings published here for Flathead County · listed in 1994 · 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 51 First Ave. W. N., Kalispell, 59901
When was it listed? August 1994
Category. building
Also known as. Kalispell MPS
Census division. Kalispell
National Register reference number. 94000878 - 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

109 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Continental Oil Company Warehouse and Garage between 1992 and 2020, burning about 205 acres in total. 7 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	70
Debris and open burning	22
Natural	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	2

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
7 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	not named
3 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Flathead County	LOC STEEL BRIDGE ROAD
23 September 1995	Smoking	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	LONE PINE
2 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Flathead County	EVG VILLAGE GREENS
18 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Flathead County	19 WOODLAND PARK DR
1 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Flathead County	HELENA FLATS AT DIRT RD KALISPELL
1 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	WAPATI ACRES
9 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Flathead County	HWY 35 BRIDGE

Every fire recorded in Flathead County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Continental Oil Company Warehouse and Garage: 4 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Clay. 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
Kalispell	Clay	Unknown
Unnamed Kaolinitic Clay	Silica	Occurrence
American Asphalt Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Carlson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Flathead County Crusher	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Mc Elnoy and Wilker Sand & Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Truman Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Flathead County

Storms near this property

27 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kalispell, the town this property stands in, in 27 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 14 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 flash flood. 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
May 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Kalispell	$500,000	Thunderstorms moved northeastward across western Montana downing powerlines, and trees. Several roofs received damage and several mobile homes were destroyed.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Kalispell	$40,000	There were 20 reports of wind damage in and around Kalispell. Blown over Trees took power lines down and damaged some houses. In addition, 2115 people were without power for a few hours.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Kalispell	$25,000	An 80-foot-tall pine tree fell over on 5th Ave West in Kalispell crushing a Corvette and damaging a truck, car and a boat.
July 2004	Flash Flood	Kalispell	$20,000	no account filed
May 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Kalispell	$5,000	Trees and power lines were knocked down. Several funnel clouds were observed over Flathead Lake.
September 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Kalispell	$500	no account filed
June 2022	Flood	Kalispell	-	The Flathead River at Columbia Falls reached minor flood stage on June 12 as Flathead Lake reached full pool, and continued at minor flood stage until June 26. Impacts included groundwater flooding agricultural fields along the Steel Bridge Road. Also water flooded recreational vehicle sites and surrounded some trailer homes just northwest of the Highway 35 bridge over the Flathead River. This event did prompt Flathead County to spin up an Emergency Operations Center with the Sheriff as the IC.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Kalispell	-	Multiple reports of tree damage and a localized power outage occurred southeast of Kalispell and Evergreen according to a call to the NWS office and via Twitter reports.
June 2016	Hail	Kalispell	-	The public reported quarter-sized hail from a thunderstorm west of Kalispell, MT.
June 2016	Hail	Kalispell	-	The public sent a photo showing multiple hailstones as large as quarters in Kalispell, MT.
July 2013	Hail	Kalispell	-	A right-moving supercell that tracked from just southwest of Marion moved over Kila and Kalispell. A person from the public in Kalispell measured 1 inch hail.
August 2013	Hail	Kalispell	-	A trained spotter northwest of Kalispell reported strong winds with penny size hail.
July 2012	Hail	Kalispell	-	Hail 1 inch in diameter was measured from Kalispell to 3 miles northeast of Kila.
June 2011	Flood	Kalispell	-	The Whitefish River flooded the backyards of four homes and to the base of the foundation of one home in the city of Kalispell.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Kalispell	-	A trained spotter reported a 12 inch diameter tree blown down onto the road.
April 2008	Tornado (EF0)	Kalispell	-	Public reported sighting of land spout to news media at around 600 PM MDT. Pictures were taken by three different residents in the area confirming location of land spout touch down between 3 Mile Drive and 4 Mile Drive near Kalispell. A possible secondary funnel occurred farther to the northwest. The Land Spout started from a cumulus cloud around 545 PM, touched down at 550 PM and then dissipated shortly after 600 PM MDT. No damage was reported.
July 2007	Hail	Kalispell	-	Nickel size hail was reported covering the ground in Kalispell. Power was also reported out to most of the county.
August 2005	Hail	Kalispell	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Kalispell	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Kalispell	-	no account filed
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Kalispell	-	no account filed
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Kalispell	-	no account filed
July 1997	Hail	Kalispell	-	no account filed
August 1997	Hail	Kalispell	-	no account filed
August 1995	Hail	Kalispell	-	no account filed
August 1995	Hail	Kalispell	-	no account filed
August 1995	Hail	Kalispell	-	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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Equity Supply Company Elevator and Creamery	under 500 feet	1994
Great Northern Railway Depot	0.1 miles	1994
Hotel Norden	0.1 miles	1994
Flathead Wholesale Grocery	0.2 miles	1994
Kalispell Monumental Company	0.2 miles	1994
Boyd's Shop	0.2 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94000878 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.
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.