Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
“The Bowman Lake Road was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. It was deemed significant " for its association with federal development of the North Fork region....”
Wikipedia article Bowman Lake Road, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 168 National Register listings published here for Flathead County · listed in 1996 · category: Site.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Bowman Lake Road between 1995 and 2020, burning about 553 acres in total. 42 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 | 42 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Glacier National Park | COVEY |
| 25 September 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Glacier National Park | GUEST RANCH FIRE |
| 24 September 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Flathead National Forest | CYCLONE |
| 23 September 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | 4.0 acres | Flathead National Forest | VANDERSCHAF |
| 12 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Glacier National Park | QUARTZ RDG |
| 9 August 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Flathead National Forest | COAL RIDGE |
| 9 August 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Glacier National Park | MUD LAKE |
| 8 August 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Glacier National Park | QUARTZ RIDGE |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bowman Lake Road: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Barite & Calcite | Barium-Barite, Calcium | Prospect |
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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2006 | Flash Flood | West Glacier | $7,000,000 | The 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 2015 | Heavy Rain | West 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 2014 | Heavy Rain | West 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 2013 | Flood | West 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 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Glacier | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Glacier | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Flood | West Glacier | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | West Glacier | - | no account filed |
| September 2004 | Hail | West Glacier | - | no account filed |
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | W. L. Adair General Mercantile Historic District | 0.1 miles | 1986 |
 | Vance Lodge | 1.3 miles | 1994 |
 | Polebridge Ranger Station Historic District | 1.6 miles | 1986 |
| Johnnie Walsh's Guest Lodge | 3.4 miles | 1988 | |
| William Raftery Homestead | 3.4 miles | 1988 | |
| Anton Schoenberger Homestead | 3.4 miles | 1988 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 95001565 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Flathead County | All 168 listed properties in this county. |
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