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Apgar, Montana

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Glacier National Park census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59936. It stands on Apgar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lake McDonald West quadrangle. It stands 3,166 feet above sea level.

Apgar within Flathead County

On record in Apgar

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 4 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 24 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

36 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Apgar between 1992 and 2019, burning about 10 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 1 was 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
Natural11
Recreation and ceremony7
Smoking4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Fireworks3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism1
Debris and open burning1
Other causes1

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
11 September 1992Smokingunder an acreGlacier National ParkINSIDE
8 August 2017Naturalunder an acreGlacier National ParkSNYDER
8 August 2009Naturalunder an acreGlacier National ParkLIME SPRINGS
8 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGlacier National ParkMCDONALD CREEK
6 August 2017Fireworksunder an acreBlackfeet AgencyDUMP ROAD
31 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlathead National ForestBELTON
30 August 2015Naturalunder an acreGlacier National ParkBELTON HILLS
3 August 1999Smokingunder an acreGlacier National ParkOLD BRIDGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Flathead County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Apgar in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2013: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2013Thunderstorm WindApgar$8,000A Glacier National Park official reported several cars damaged from downed trees. They also reported that there were several areas with rocks on the road partially blocking lanes, but no major landslide activity. Approximately 22 miles to the northwest in Polebridge, the RAWS sensor measured a wind gust to 50 mph at 4:50 pm MDT.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindApgar-Wind gusts over 60 mph were estimated due to several trees 1 to 2 feet in diameter being knock down near Apgar. In addition a dozen trees approximately 1 foot in diameter were knocked down along Lake McDonald.

Every storm recorded in Flathead 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
West Glacier2.1 miles14
Coram8.1 miles12
Lake McDonald9.1 miles24
Crystal Ford9.5 miles24
Martin City9.7 miles12
Geduhn (historical)10.1 miles23
Hungry Horse10.4 miles12
Nyack11.7 miles13

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.

Wikipedia article on ApgarAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4779453The 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 779098. 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.

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.