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Agency, Montana

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Flathead Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59831. It stands on Jocko River. The Survey maps it on the Dixon quadrangle.

Agency within Sanders County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

93 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Agency between 1992 and 2019, burning about 923 acres in total. 36 started naturally. 2 were 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
Natural36
Recreation and ceremony32
Debris and open burning12
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2016Naturalunder an acreNational Bison RangeBITTERROOT TRAIL
28 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlathead AgencyDUNES#1
23 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreFlathead AgencyMIDDLEMIST
22 September 2019Arson/incendiarism478 acresFlathead AgencyD HILL
16 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlathead AgencyFOUST
14 September 2014Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresFlathead AgencyNORTH DIXON
13 September 1996Naturalunder an acreFlathead AgencySELOW
9 August 2008Naturalunder an acreFlathead AgencyMOSS RANCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sanders County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Agency: 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Sanders County

Storms near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Agency in 1 storm report in 2010: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2010HailAgency-A trained spotter two miles east of Dixon reported hail to the size of quarters with some larger pieces in the mix.

Every storm recorded in Sanders County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Old Agency0.1 miles6
Silíp1.3 miles6
McDonald8.9 miles6
Sloan11.5 miles6
Perma15.6 miles8
Camas Prairie19.0 miles8
Knowles22.3 miles9
Island City (historical)26.4 miles8

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q49343995The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 768131. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.