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East Glacier Park, Montana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Blackfeet Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59434. The Survey maps it on the East Glacier Park quadrangle.

East Glacier Park within Glacier County

On record in East Glacier Park

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 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

110 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 110 fires within 5 miles of East Glacier Park between 1994 and 2020, burning about 40 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 6 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
Recreation and ceremony43
Debris and open burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Natural7
Fireworks6
Arson/incendiarism6
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Other causes2
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
9 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBlackfeet AgencyANN FIRE
5 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreBlackfeet AgencyBRIDGE
5 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBlackfeet AgencyCUP FIRE
5 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBlackfeet AgencySTUMP FIRE
4 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreBlackfeet AgencyBEASTY
2 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBlackfeet AgencyWASHINGTON
2 September 1997Naturalunder an acreBlackfeet AgencyBOLDYBUTTE
17 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresBlackfeet AgencyMIDVALE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Glacier County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of East Glacier Park: 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
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

5 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Glacier Park in 5 storm reports between 2004 and 2019: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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
May 2019FloodEast Glacier Park-MT DOT reported floodwater on US-2, 3-miles west of East Glacier. Exact duration of flooding unknown.
July 2008HailEast Glacier Park-A severe thunderstorm dropped .75 inch diameter hail at East Glacier Park 2N.
July 2006HailEast Glacier Park-no account filed
July 2006HailEast Glacier Park-no account filed
September 2004Thunderstorm WindEast Glacier Park-no account filed

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
East Glacier Park Village0.5 miles11
Bison4.5 miles12
False Summit5.8 miles11
Star7.1 miles9
Durham7.6 miles9
Kiowa7.9 miles10
Starr School11.0 miles9
Summit11.1 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 782929. 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.