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History · Fox Lake

16% of Fox Lake’s homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Burgess Garage. Below: maps from 1972 on and the census since 2000.

1on the National Register
16%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Fox Lake’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Fox Lake are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The story

How Fox Lake came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Fox Lake.

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Within the CDP, as well as the settlement of Fox Lake, is located the settlement of Lambert. Lambert was built as a station stop along the Great Northern Railway branch line extending west from Sidney, Montana. A post office opened at Lambert on November 7, 1910. It was originally named Fox Lake after a nearby lake. The name changed to Lambert on March 13, 1914, under postmaster Edmund Bronson.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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On the map

Fox Lake on the map, 1972 to 1981

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Fox Lake. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Fox Lake on the 1972 USGS mapFox Lake on the 1981 USGS map1972Lambert sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Fox Lake.

On the National Register

1 historic place in Fox Lake

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
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National Historic Landmarks
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historic buildings protected
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each building in a district counts
first listed
2004
Burgess Garage
Burgess Garage
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Western Commercial1
All 1 listings
Burgess GarageBuilding · listed 2004

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

People over time

Fox Lake, census by census

010020020002020Peak: 231

Between 157 and 231 people in every census since 2000.

3 censuses, 2000–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Fox Lake’s Wikipedia page.

Places that used to be

Old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Old hamlets and crossroads still carry their names on the map.

Hamlets and corners on the map
Lambert
Gone or out of use
LambertlocaleOccident Elevator Company ElevatorlocaleUnion Congregational Churchchurch
1cemetery inside Fox Lake
Lambert Catholic

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about Fox Lake’s history

What is on the National Register in Fox Lake?

One place: the Burgess Garage (listed 2004).

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What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.