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Forest Hill Village, Montana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Lakeside-Somers census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59901. It stands on Patrick Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lion Mountain quadrangle. 241 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,048 feet above sea level.

Forest Hill Village within Flathead County

Population over time

2 figures

Forest Hill Village grew from 206 to 241 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010206
2020241+35 (+17%)

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

138 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Forest Hill Village between 1992 and 2020, burning about 147 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined54
Debris and open burning41
Natural12
Recreation and ceremony11
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking5
Fireworks3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
7 September 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeFOREST HILL
7 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeEAST PATRICK CR
5 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNorthwestern Land Officenot named
3 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlathead CountyLOC STEEL BRIDGE ROAD
19 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreNorthwestern Land Officenot named
18 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlathead County120 INDUSTRIAL CT
16 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeMM 106
1 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeSUNNY SIDE ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Demersville (historical)3.1 miles11
Somers3.2 miles11
Mar-Le Villa4.7 miles11
Meadow Manor Incorporated6.1 miles11
Kalispell6.1 miles11
Duncan (historical)6.4 miles11
Ashley (historical)6.5 miles11
Lakeside7.0 miles11

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 Forest Hill VillageAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5863823The 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 1796137. 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.