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Kenspur, Montana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Stevensville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59833. It stands on Larry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Stevensville quadrangle.

Kenspur within Ravalli County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

113 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Kenspur between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,115 acres in total. 31 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
Recreation and ceremony35
Natural31
Debris and open burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Arson/incendiarism4
Fireworks3
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBitterroot National ForestBLACKJACK
30 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBitterroot National ForestBASS OVERLOOK
29 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBitterroot National ForestBASS CREEK
25 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBitterroot National ForestSITE 22
24 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBitterroot National ForestONE HORSE FIRE
2 September 2009Naturalunder an acreBitterroot National ForestCARLTON CREEK
14 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRavaIIi County441 TIE CHUTE LN
12 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreBitterroot National ForestKOOTENAI 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ravalli County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Kenspur: 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Pumice, Zinc, Gold, Lead, Silver. 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
Unnamed Pubmice OccurrencePumiceOccurrence
Wild MapleZinc, Gold, Lead, SilverProspect

Every working recorded in Ravalli County

Storms near this place

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kenspur in 2 storm reports between 2018 and 2024: 1 flood, 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 2024Thunderstorm WindKenspur$1,000Thunderstorm winds pushed over a 20 foot tall tree along Eastside Highway.
May 2018FloodKenspur$1,000With both the Bitterroot River and Burnt Fork Creek running high, damage to the Lee Metcalf Wildlife Refuge and Whitetail Golf Course occurred. Much of the damage included scouring of pavement in these areas.

Every storm recorded in Ravalli 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
Sweeney Creek (historical)1.2 miles14
Florence2.7 miles13
Bitter Root (historical)2.8 miles14
Bitterroot Pines3.4 miles13
Bitterroot Court5.7 miles14
Stevensville5.8 miles14
Apple Blossom Court6.2 miles14
Mountain Shadows Estates6.7 miles17

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 Q122543001The 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 785681. 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.