BlockEagle Lake Ranch, 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 59918. It stands on Deep Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fortine quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 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.
- 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 Fortine quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Whitefish Range quadrangle1:100000
- 1997 USGS Fortine quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
142 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 142 fires within 5 miles of Eagle Lake Ranch between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,235 acres in total. 27 started naturally. 5 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 | 51 |
| Natural | 27 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 10 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 5 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kootenai National Forest | SPRING CREEK MILL |
| 4 September 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kootenai National Forest | FRANK SKIDDER |
| 3 September 2004 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Kootenai National Forest | LAUGHING |
| 3 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Kootenai National Forest | MEADOW |
| 28 September 1996 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kootenai National Forest | DITCH |
| 27 September 1996 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kootenai National Forest | ALPINE |
| 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 |
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.
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 Q122596464 | 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 1829049. 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.