Ant Flat, Montana

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Eureka census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59934. It stands on Dickey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Edna Mountain quadrangle.

Ant Flat within Lincoln County

On record in Ant Flat

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Ant Flat Ranger Stationlisted 1996 · 0.0 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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.

1913 USGS Stryker quadrangle1:125000
1916 USGS Stryker quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Edna Mountain quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Whitefish Range quadrangle1:100000
1997 USGS Edna Mountain quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

128 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of Ant Flat between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,168 acres in total. 26 started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning	37
Natural	26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Recreation and ceremony	13
Smoking	7
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Fireworks	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
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 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kootenai National Forest	SOUTH DICKEY
3 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Kootenai National Forest	STRYKER RIDGE
3 September 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Kootenai National Forest	LAUGHING
21 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kootenai National Forest	1024
21 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Kootenai National Forest	KASANKA MILL
17 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Kootenai National Forest	LOON LAKE
17 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Kootenai National Forest	FIR RIDGE
12 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Kootenai National Forest	TENDER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln 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
Trego	1.4 miles	14
Fortine	3.1 miles	13
Eagle Lake Ranch	3.3 miles	13
Stryker	6.6 miles	14
Fish Lake (historical)	8.5 miles	13
Tobacco	9.1 miles	13
Eureka	14.3 miles	10
Midvale	14.7 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 779054. 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.