Roes Creek Campground Camptender's Cabin

Built in 1937 (National Park Service rustic). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“The Roes Creek Campground Camptender's Cabin, also known as the Rising Sun Campground Ranger Cabin, in Glacier National Park is an example of the National Park Service Rustic style.”
Wikipedia article Roes Creek Campground Camptender's Cabin, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Glacier County · listed in 1996 · category: Building · built in 1937, National Park Service rustic.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. N of Going-to-the-Sun Rd. at St. Mary Lake, Glacier NP, St. Mary, 59434
When was it listed? April 1996
Category. building
Also known as. Glacier National Park MPS; Glacier National Park MPS
Census division. Glacier National Park
When was it built? 1937
Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
National Register reference number. 95001575 - 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

13 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Roes Creek Campground Camptender's Cabin between 1994 and 2018, burning about 34,240 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 1 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	8
Recreation and ceremony	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
6 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	GOAT
5 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Blackfeet Agency	SWAMP FIRE
30 August 1998	Natural	15 acres	Glacier National Park	RED EAGLE
30 August 1998	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	TWO DOG
11 August 2008	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	RISING SUN
10 August 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Blackfeet Agency	GARDEN
31 July 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Glacier National Park	RED EAGLE
29 July 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Blackfeet Agency	3-MILE II FIRE

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

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
Rising Sun Auto Camp	0.2 miles	1996
Rising Wolf	0.3 miles	2016
Sun Camp Fireguard Cabin	3.1 miles	1999
St. Mary Utility Area Historic District	5.1 miles	1996
Saint Mary Visitor Center, Entrance Station and Checking Stations	5.3 miles	2008
Glacier National Park Tourist Trails-Inside Trail, South Circle, North Circle	5.6 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95001575 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.