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Fortine, 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 59918. It stands on Deep Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fortine quadrangle. 317 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,972 feet above sea level.

Fortine within Lincoln County

On record in Fortine

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

Population over time

3 figures

Fortine grew from 169 to 317 between 2000 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
2000169
2010325+156 (+92%)
2020317-8 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

139 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 139 fires within 5 miles of Fortine between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,224 acres in total. 27 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
Debris and open burning52
Natural27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Recreation and ceremony12
Equipment and vehicle use10
Smoking6
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Arson/incendiarism4
Fireworks2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
5 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKootenai National ForestSPRING CREEK MILL
3 September 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKootenai National ForestLAUGHING
3 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKootenai National ForestMEADOW
28 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreKootenai National ForestDITCH
27 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreKootenai National ForestALPINE
21 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKootenai National Forest1024
21 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKootenai National ForestKASANKA MILL
21 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKootenai National ForestGRAVE STUMP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln 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 Fortine: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead. 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
Rex MineLeadPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fortine in 1 storm report in 2007: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2007Thunderstorm WindFortine-The CO-OP Observer in Fortine reported several large trees blown down from thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Eagle Lake Ranch0.8 miles13
Ant Flat3.1 miles13
Trego4.5 miles14
Tobacco6.0 miles13
Stryker9.4 miles14
Fish Lake (historical)11.0 miles13
Eureka11.3 miles10
Midvale11.7 miles10

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 FortineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q598124The 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 771521. 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.