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Blackfoot, Montana

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Blackfeet Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59417. It stands on Flatiron Creek. The Survey maps it on the Blackfoot quadrangle. 109 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,154 feet above sea level.

Blackfoot within Glacier 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.

Fires near this place

113 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Blackfoot between 1992 and 2019, burning about 5,575 acres in total. 6 started naturally. None 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
Railroad operations and maintenance22
Debris and open burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Smoking14
Equipment and vehicle use14
Fireworks8
Natural6
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Recreation and ceremony3
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
8 September 2018Debris and open burning2.1 acresBlackfeet AgencySPRING HILL
8 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBlackfeet AgencyLUCKY 13
26 September 1994Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresBlackfeet AgencyHARWOODS
23 September 2006Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreBlackfeet AgencyDOUBLE FIRE
21 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBlackfeet AgencyHIDE OUT
21 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreBlackfeet AgencyCHEVY FIRE
21 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBlackfeet AgencyBOARDSCHO
2 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreBlackfeet AgencyFJOHNSON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Glacier County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Blackfoot: 4 unknowns, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Titanium. 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
Titanium-Iron OccurrenceIron, TitaniumOccurrence
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Glacier County

Storms near this place

4 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blackfoot in 4 storm reports between 2007 and 2022: 2 hail, 2 heavy rain. 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
June 2022Heavy RainBlackfoot-Rain report from mesonet station shbm8 5.2 SE Browning.
June 2022Heavy RainBlackfoot-Shbm8 5.2 se Browning.
June 2020HailBlackfoot-Spotter emailed a picture. Also, reported 0.25 inches of rain. Time estimated based upon radar.
June 2007HailBlackfoot-A severe thunderstorm dropped 1.75 inch diameter hail at Blackfoot 26N (the U.S. Customs office at Del Bonita).

Every storm recorded in Glacier 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
Meriwether6.5 miles9
North Browning7.0 miles9
Browning7.4 miles9
South Browning7.6 miles9
Family (historical)9.5 miles11
Fort Piegan12.7 miles9
Durham13.3 miles9
Piegan13.7 miles11

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 BlackfootAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q24887348The 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 802043. 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.