Idlewise Court, 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. The Survey maps it on the Bigfork quadrangle.

Idlewise Court 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.

1943 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:125000
1957 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Bigfork quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Bigfork quadrangle1:24000
1994 USGS Bigfork quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

140 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 140 fires within 5 miles of Idlewise Court between 1992 and 2020, burning about 94 acres in total. 10 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/undetermined	56
Debris and open burning	37
Recreation and ceremony	17
Natural	10
Smoking	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Fireworks	3

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
9 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	Flathead National Forest	CRANE CREEK
7 September 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	SONGBIRD LANE
7 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	RIPPLING WATERS ROAD
4 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	not named
24 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	MILE MRK 29 HWY 35
22 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Flathead National Forest	ESTES #3
21 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Flathead National Forest	BEARDANCE
21 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Woods Bay	1.7 miles	12
Ferndale	3.8 miles	12
Bear Dance	7.6 miles	8
Rollins	10.6 miles	8
Swan Lake	13.5 miles	10
Proctor	15.5 miles	9
Dayton	15.6 miles	9
Lindisfarne	17.0 miles	7

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 Q122561057

The 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 1797035. 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.