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Ferndale, Montana

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Woods Bay-Rollins census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59911. It stands on Carney Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bigfork quadrangle. It stands 3,071 feet above sea level.

Ferndale within Lake County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

201 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 201 fires within 5 miles of Ferndale between 1992 and 2020, burning about 129 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined81
Debris and open burning50
Recreation and ceremony19
Natural17
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking6
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Fireworks3

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 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeSOUTH WHITETAIL
8 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeBEAR CREEK
7 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeSONGBIRD LANE
7 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeRED OWL
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeRIPPLING WATERS ROAD
4 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreNorthwestern Land Officenot named
24 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeMILE MRK 29 HWY 35
23 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeUPPER JEWEL BASIN RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Ferndale: 1 unknown. 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 PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Lake 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
Idlewise Court3.8 miles12
Woods Bay4.1 miles12
Bear Dance9.4 miles8
Swan Lake12.1 miles10
Rollins14.3 miles8
Proctor19.2 miles9
Dayton19.3 miles9
Lindisfarne20.4 miles7

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 Q110737819The 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 802097. 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.