St. Mary Utility Area Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“Mary Utility Area Historic District comprises a support area of Glacier National Park with employee housing and support buildings in the prevailing National Park Service Rustic style. The complex was built by Civilian Conservation Corps labor to replace the administrative facilities at East Glacier Ranger Station in a location more convenient to the new Going-to-the-Sun Road.”
Wikipedia article St. Mary Utility Area 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

Address. E of St. Mary at Divide Creek, Glacier NP, St. Mary, 59417
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. National Park Service rustic
National Register reference number. 95001576 - 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

50 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of St. Mary Utility Area Historic District between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,090 acres in total. 10 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
Recreation and ceremony	11
Natural	10
Debris and open burning	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Fireworks	2
Other causes	2
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
8 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Blackfeet Agency	2 POSTS
6 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Blackfeet Agency	DIVIDE
3 September 2000	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Blackfeet Agency	STMARYSTWO
28 September 2001	Smoking	under an acre	Blackfeet Agency	AQUAFINA
27 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Blackfeet Agency	THREECAN
23 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Blackfeet Agency	DIVIDE
23 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	800 acres	Blackfeet Agency	DEADOUT
19 September 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Blackfeet Agency	BUD 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

4 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
Saint Mary Visitor Center, Entrance Station and Checking Stations	0.9 miles	2008
Rising Sun Auto Camp	5.0 miles	1996
Roes Creek Campground Camptender's Cabin	5.1 miles	1996
Rising Wolf	5.4 miles	2016

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95001576 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.