Cut Bank Ranger Station Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“The Cut Bank Ranger Station in Glacier National Park was one of the first buildings built in Glacier by the National Park Service. Built in 1917, the design is in keeping with park hotel structures built by the Great Northern Railway in a Swiss chalet style that predated the fully developed National Park Service Rustic style.”
Wikipedia article Cut Bank Ranger Station Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Glacier County · listed in 1996 · category: District.

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 3 buildingss, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. N side Cut Bank Creek, Glacier NP, East Glacier, 59434
When was it listed? January 1996
Category. district
Also known as. Glacier National Park MPS; Glacier National Park MPS
Census division. Glacier National Park
Architectural style. rustic architecture
National Register reference number. 95001566 - 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

33 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Cut Bank Ranger Station Historic District between 1992 and 2019, burning about 34 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony	14
Natural	6
Debris and open burning	3
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Fireworks	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
26 September 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Blackfeet Agency	ALL TOW FIRE
24 September 1994	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Blackfeet Agency	STMARYFIRE
23 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Blackfeet Agency	DIVIDE
14 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Blackfeet Agency	SWTPINELTG
13 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	CUTBANK
9 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Blackfeet Agency	LIGHTENING STRIKE FI
4 August 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Blackfeet Agency	JONA FIRE
28 August 2019	Smoking	under an acre	Blackfeet Agency	BREMNER

Every fire recorded in Glacier County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cut Bank Ranger Station Historic District: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Glacier 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 record	The nomination case file for reference 95001566 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Glacier County	All 29 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.