Kootenai Creek Snowshoe Cabin

Built in 1926 (National Park Service rustic). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Glacier County · listed in 1999 · category: Building · built in 1926, National Park Service rustic, by National Park Service.

Sources: 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. Flattop Mtn., along Kootenai Creek, St. Mary, 59434
When was it listed? July 1999
Category. building
Also known as. Glacier National Park MPS; Glacier National Park MPS
Census division. Glacier National Park
When was it built? 1926
Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
Architect. National Park Service
National Register reference number. 99000775 - 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 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Kootenai Creek Snowshoe Cabin between 1998 and 2015, burning about 27,461 acres in total. 13 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	13

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 2015	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	FLATTOP FIRE
6 August 2010	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	REDHORN
5 August 2004	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	REDHORN SADDLE
30 August 1998	Natural	8,758 acres	Glacier National Park	MCDONALD CREEK
30 August 1998	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	FLATTOP #2
29 August 1998	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	50 MTN.
24 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	CONTINENTAL
17 August 2015	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	MINERAL CREEK

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
	Goathaunt Bunkhouse	6.6 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99000775 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.