Swiftcurrent Auto Camp Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“The Swiftcurrent Auto Camp Historic District preserves a portion of the built-up area of Glacier National Park that documents the second phase of tourist development in the park. After the creation of a series of hotels for train-borne visitors including the nearby Many Glacier Hotel, courtesy of the Great Northern Railway's hotel concession, facilities were developed for the increasing numbers of automobile-borne tourists, drawn to Glacier by the Going-to-the-Sun Road.”
Wikipedia article Swiftcurrent Auto Camp 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. W end of Glacier Rt. 3, Glacier NP, Many 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. National Park Service rustic
National Register reference number. 95001578 - 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 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Swiftcurrent Auto Camp Historic District between 1993 and 2017, burning about 23 acres in total. 6 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	6
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
20 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	CRACKER
7 August 1993	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	CHALET
25 August 2000	Natural	22 acres	Glacier National Park	GRINNEL POINT
5 July 2007	Fireworks	under an acre	Glacier National Park	MANY GLACIER
23 July 2000	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	PTARMIGAN
15 July 1995	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	HOPE
11 July 2017	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	BOULDER

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 Swiftcurrent Auto Camp Historic District: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper. 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
	Cracker Lake Mine	Copper	Prospect

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.

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
Many Glacier Campground Camptender's Cabin	0.1 miles	1996
MORNING EAGLE (carvel-planked wooden vessel)	0.8 miles	2018
Many Glacier Hotel Historic District	1.0 miles	1976
Many Glacier Barn and Bunkhouse	1.5 miles	1996
Glacier National Park Tourist Trails-Inside Trail, South Circle, North Circle	5.5 miles	1996
Logan Pass Visitor Center	7.3 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95001578 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.