BlockFish Lake, 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 59933. It stands on Hellroaring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bull Lake quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
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
- 1966 USGS Bull Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Whitefish Range quadrangle1:100000
- 1997 USGS Bull Lake quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
57 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Fish Lake (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 92 acres in total. 22 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 | 22 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 11 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kootenai National Forest | SOUTH DICKEY |
| 4 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Northwestern Land Office | WEST FORK |
| 3 September 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Kootenai National Forest | STRYKER RIDGE |
| 17 September 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Kootenai National Forest | PATRICK RIDGE |
| 15 September 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Flathead National Forest | FIRE LAKES |
| 9 August 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Northwestern Land Office | not named |
| 6 August 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Kootenai National Forest | STILLWATER RAILWAY |
| 4 August 2000 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Kootenai National Forest | FREE SHOES |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1782414. 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.