Allard, Montana

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Flathead Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59860. It stands on Skidoo Creek. The Survey maps it on the East Bay quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Allard within Lake County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

1920 USGS Flathead Lake quadrangle1:125000
1956 USGS Wallace quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Wallace quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS East Bay quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Polson quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS East Bay quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

48 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Allard (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 222 acres in total. 14 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
Recreation and ceremony	19
Natural	14
Debris and open burning	6
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Fireworks	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	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
4 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Flathead Agency	SKIDOO BAY
30 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Flathead Agency	HELLROARING 1
21 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Flathead Agency	BOULDER
21 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Flathead Agency	FINLEYPOIN
18 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Flathead Agency	CENTIPEDE
17 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	SOUTH WOODWARD
9 August 2006	Natural	1.0 acres	Flathead Agency	MINESINGER
6 August 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Flathead Agency	HELLROAR1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Finley Point	2.2 miles	9
Turtle Lake	6.0 miles	9
Kings Point	6.9 miles	7
Belle-Vue Court	7.3 miles	7
Mountain View (historical)	7.7 miles	9
Polson	8.3 miles	7
Rocky Point	8.3 miles	7
Jette	9.1 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1796938. 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.