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Photograph of North Fork Road
Photograph by National Park Service inventory, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

North Fork Road

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“The North Fork Road in Glacier National Park was built in 1901. The Butte Oil Company constructed a rough wagon road from Lake McDonald to its oil well at Kintla Lake, encouraging the development of the North Fork region.”

Wikipedia article North Fork Road, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 168 National Register listings published here for Flathead County · listed in 1996 · category: Structure.

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 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. North Fork drainage, Fish Creek to Kintla Lake, Glacier NP, West Glacier, 59936
  • When was it listed? January 1996
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Glacier National Park MPS; Glacier National Park MPS
  • Census division. Glacier National Park
  • Architect. National Park Service
  • National Register reference number. 95001572 - 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

30 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of North Fork Road between 1992 and 2019, burning about 7 acres in total. 14 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
Natural14
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony4
Fireworks3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1

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
6 September 2014Naturalunder an acreGlacier National ParkSNYDER
11 September 1992Smokingunder an acreGlacier National ParkINSIDE
8 August 2017Naturalunder an acreGlacier National ParkSNYDER
8 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGlacier National ParkMCDONALD CREEK
6 August 2017Fireworksunder an acreBlackfeet AgencyDUMP ROAD
31 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlathead National ForestBELTON
30 August 2015Naturalunder an acreGlacier National ParkBELTON HILLS
3 August 1999Smokingunder an acreGlacier National ParkOLD BRIDGE

Every fire recorded in Flathead County

Storms near this property

9 since 2004

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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 2006Flash FloodWest Glacier$7,000,000The 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 2015Heavy RainWest 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 2014Heavy RainWest 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 2013FloodWest 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 2006Thunderstorm WindWest Glacier-no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindWest Glacier-no account filed
May 2006FloodWest Glacier-no account filed
June 2006HailWest Glacier-no account filed
September 2004HailWest Glacier-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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Fish Creek Bay Boathouse0.4 miles1996
DESMET (boat)0.4 miles2017
Sherwood Lodge0.9 miles2008
Bull Head Lodge and Studio1.1 miles1984
Howes' Lake McDonald Cottage Sites Historic District1.4 miles2008
Camas Creek Cutoff Road1.6 miles2014

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 95001572 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Flathead CountyAll 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.
  • 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.