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Essex, Montana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the South Fork census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59916. It stands on Essex Creek. The Survey maps it on the Essex quadrangle. 44 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,868 feet above sea level.

Essex within Flathead County

On record in Essex

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 1 record

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

41 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Essex between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,654 acres in total. 27 started naturally. 2 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
Natural27
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use1
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 2006Naturalunder an acreFlathead National ForestPAOLA
8 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlathead National Forestnot named
2 September 2000Naturalunder an acreGlacier National ParkSCALPLOCK
13 September 2011Naturalunder an acreGlacier National ParkPAOLA
1 September 2011Naturalunder an acreGlacier National ParkRAMPAGE 2
7 August 2017Naturalunder an acreFlathead National ForestMARION CREEK
5 August 1997Naturalunder an acreGlacier National ParkSCALPLOCK
4 August 2015Naturalunder an acreGlacier National ParkSCALPLOCK FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Flathead 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 Essex: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
EssexStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Essex QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Great NorthernCopperPast Producer
LippincottCopperPast Producer
OkedaleCopperPast Producer

Every working recorded in Flathead County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Essex in 1 storm report in 2008: 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
July 2008HailEssex-Trained spotter in Essex reported 0.75 inch 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
Nimrod3.6 miles13
Pinnacle5.8 miles13
Singleshot7.3 miles13
Snowslip8.4 miles12
Blacktail8.7 miles12
McCarthyville (historical)9.2 miles12
Canyon Creek Boat Landing9.4 miles11
Nyack15.1 miles13

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 EssexAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5399613The 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 783229. 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.