Goathaunt Bunkhouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“The Goathaunt Bunkhouse was built as a service structure by the Glacier Park Hotel Company for the development of the Goathaunt site in Glacier National Park. This was part of the Great Northern Railway's broader development of the park as a tourist destination.”
Wikipedia article Goathaunt Bunkhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. S end of Waterton Lake, Glacier NP, St. Mary, 59434
When was it listed? January 1996
Category. building
Also known as. Glacier National Park MPS; Glacier National Park MPS
Census division. Glacier National Park
Architectural style. rustic architecture
National Register reference number. 95001568 - 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

7 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Goathaunt Bunkhouse between 1994 and 2018, burning about 2,936 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
Natural	7

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
9 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	LAKE JANET
29 August 1998	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	GOAT HAUNT
23 August 2018	Natural	2,911 acres	Glacier National Park	BOUNDARY
2 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	RAINBOW
14 August 2015	Natural	25 acres	Glacier National Park	WATERTON LAKE
14 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	PORCUPINE RIDGE
25 July 1994	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	CLEVELAND

Every fire 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.

Listed places nearby

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Kootenai Creek Snowshoe Cabin	6.6 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95001568 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.