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Glacier County, Montana

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles

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29historic places

—earliest paper

1919formed

13,778pop. 2020

10cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 29 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966; 2 are also National Historic Landmarks. Most listings are in or near St. Mary, Babb, Cut Bank.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Montana is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Glacier titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

14 of 29 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

29 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Babb-Piegan, Montana, Inspection Station	Babb	Building	2006
Camp Disappointment NHL	Browning	Site	1966
Chief Mountain Border Station and Quarters	Babb	Building	2008
Cut Bank Municipal Airport and Army Air Force Base	Cut Bank	District	2008
Cut Bank Ranger Station Historic District	East Glacier	District	1996
Glacier County Courthouse	Cut Bank	Building	2013
Glacier National Park Tourist Trails-Inside Trail, South Circle, North Circle	St. Mary	District	1996
Glacier Park Women's Club	East Glacier Park	Building	2019
Goathaunt Bunkhouse	St. Mary	Building	1996
Going-to-the-Sun Road	West Glacier	Structure	1983
Holy Family Mission	Browning	Building	1982
Kootenai Creek Snowshoe Cabin	St. Mary	Building	1999
LITTLE CHIEF (boat)	East Glacier Park	Structure	2017
Lee Creek Snowshoe Cabin	Glacier National Park	Building	2001
Logan Pass Visitor Center	Saint Mary	Building	2008
MORNING EAGLE (carvel-planked wooden vessel)	Babb	Structure	2018
Many Glacier Barn and Bunkhouse	St. Mary	Building	1996
Many Glacier Campground Camptender's Cabin	St. Mary	Building	1996
Many Glacier Hotel Historic District NHL	Babb	District	1976
Rising Sun Auto Camp	St. Mary	District	1996
Rising Wolf	St. Mary	Structure	2016
River View Dairy Barn	Cut Bank	Building	2022
Roes Creek Campground Camptender's Cabin	St. Mary	Building	1996
Saint Mary Visitor Center, Entrance Station and Checking Stations	Saint Mary	Building	2008
St. Mary Utility Area Historic District	St. Mary	District	1996
Sun Camp Fireguard Cabin	St. Mary	Building	1999
Swanson Boathouse	East Glacier	Building	1996
Swiftcurrent Auto Camp Historic District	Many Glacier	District	1996
Two Medicine Campground Camptender's Cabin	East Glacier	Building	1996

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Glacier was formed in 1919 (1919-04-01) from Teton.

GLACIER created from TETON. Act passed 17 February 1919; took effect 1 April 1919.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Glacier County population from 1920 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
4,178	9,034	9,645	11,565	10,628	13,247	13,778

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

Site	Type	Dist.
Glacier National Park	Park unit	56.8 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

10 cemeteries and 6 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 10 of 10 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Afterbuffalo Cemetery	48.55913	-113.16397
Birdrattler Cemetery	48.62386	-113.00146
Crown Hill Cemetery	48.65414	-112.32282
Earring Cemetery	48.58219	-113.12424
East Glacier Park Cemetery	48.46012	-113.22942
Four Horns Cemetery	48.41223	-112.70809
Holy Family Mission Cemetery	48.48219	-112.737
Nightshoot Cemetery	48.65299	-112.94018
Schildt Cemetery	48.57716	-113.26161
Willow Creek Cemetery	48.54219	-113.02202

Historical populated places — 6 of 6

Name	Lat	Lon
Altyn	48.79998	-113.62455
Douglas	48.86109	-113.21621
Family	48.48192	-112.74451
Korner	48.9111	-112.32034
Sullivan	48.98749	-113.04954
Tipville	48.85138	-112.32033

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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