Allentown, Montana

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Flathead Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59824. The Survey maps it on the Fort Connah quadrangle.

Allentown within Lake 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.

1956 USGS Wallace quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Wallace quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Fort Connah quadrangle1:24000
1988 USGS Fort Connah quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

95 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Allentown between 1994 and 2020, burning about 136 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 6 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	38
Debris and open burning	26
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Natural	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Arson/incendiarism	6
Fireworks	2
Smoking	1
Other causes	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 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Flathead Agency	2 CREEK LN
29 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Flathead Agency	MCDONALD
29 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Flathead Agency	HAMMERDAM4
28 September 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Flathead Agency	HAMMERD
22 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Flathead Agency	HAMERDAM#4
20 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Flathead Agency	MCDONALD
20 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Flathead Agency	HAMER2
19 September 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Flathead Agency	HAMMERS 9

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Allentown: 4 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working 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
Kicking Horse	1.8 miles	6
Post Creek	2.9 miles	6
Charlo	4.0 miles	6
Ronan	6.1 miles	8
Saint Ignatius	8.3 miles	7
Moiese	10.2 miles	6
Round Butte	10.7 miles	8
Pablo	11.1 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 768211. 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.