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Blacktail, Montana

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the South Fork census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59916. It lies near McCartysville Flats. The Survey maps it on the Blacktail quadrangle.

Blacktail within Flathead County

On record in Blacktail

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

23 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Blacktail between 1992 and 2020, burning about 53,099 acres in total. 14 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
Natural14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1

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 2003Naturalunder an acreFlathead National ForestSKYLAND
27 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlathead National ForestMILE MARKER 193
2 September 2000Naturalunder an acreGlacier National ParkSCALPLOCK
2 September 1998Natural8,800 acresFlathead National ForestCHALLENGE
18 September 1998Naturalunder an acreFlathead National ForestCHALLENGE 2
1 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlathead National ForestSNOW SLIP POWERLINE
1 September 2013Naturalunder an acreFlathead National ForestDEVIL CREEK
7 August 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlathead National ForestDEVIL CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Flathead County

Storms near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blacktail in 1 storm report in 2010: 1 hail. 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 2010HailBlacktail-A car traveling over Logan Pass sustained dents from the hail.

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
McCarthyville (historical)0.6 miles12
Snowslip1.3 miles12
Singleshot2.7 miles13
Nimrod6.9 miles13
Essex8.7 miles11
Pinnacle12.2 miles13
Three Forks13.5 miles14
Canyon Creek Boat Landing17.5 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 802044. 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.