BlockCrystal Ford, 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 Midget Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lake McDonald East quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 24 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1904 USGS Chief Mountain quadrangle1:125000, 8 printings
- 1938 USGS Chief Mountain quadrangle1:125000, 8 printings
- 1960 USGS Cut Bank quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1963 USGS Cut Bank quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Cut Bank quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Lake Mc Donald East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Lake Mc Donald East quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
24 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Crystal Ford between 1992 and 2018, burning about 31,667 acres in total. 21 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 21 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2014 | Natural | under an acre | Glacier National Park | SNYDER |
| 6 September 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Glacier National Park | LABOUR |
| 6 September 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Glacier National Park | SNYDER |
| 5 September 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Glacier National Park | REBECKA |
| 22 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Glacier National Park | FLAT ROCK |
| 1 September 2012 | Natural | 160 acres | Glacier National Park | AVALANCHE |
| 1 September 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Glacier National Park | AVALANCHE |
| 9 August 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Glacier National Park | VAUGHT |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake McDonald | 1.5 miles | 24 | |
| Geduhn (historical) | 2.0 miles | 23 | |
| Sperry Chalets | 3.4 miles | 24 | |
| Red Rock Point | 6.2 miles | 23 | |
| Apgar | 9.5 miles | 24 | |
| Packers Roost | 10.1 miles | 23 | |
| West Glacier | 10.2 miles | 14 | |
| Crystal Point | 10.4 miles | 24 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122588659 | The 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 781958. 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.