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Kerr, Montana

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Flathead Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59860. The Survey maps it on the Polson quadrangle. 273 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,966 feet above sea level.

Kerr within Lake County

Population over time

3 figures

Kerr grew from 17 to 273 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
200017
2010251+234 (+1376%)
2020273+22 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

47 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Kerr between 1992 and 2020, burning about 734 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 2 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 burning9
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Fireworks5
Natural4
Arson/incendiarism2

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
8 September 2001Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlathead AgencyKERR
7 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlathead AgencyLOG HOUSE
16 September 2013Recreation and ceremony392 acresFlathead AgencyIRVINE FLATS 1
1 September 1998Naturalunder an acreLolo National ForestSNIDER
9 August 2013Naturalunder an acreFlathead AgencyHAACK
30 August 1992Power generation/transmission/distribution95 acresFlathead AgencyIRVINE
29 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreFlathead AgencyKERR DAM BACK
22 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use24 acresFlathead AgencyLAKES

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Kerr: 14 unknowns, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
QuarryStoneUnknown
QuarryStoneUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Polson1.8 miles7
Jette2.6 miles7
Belle-Vue Court2.8 miles7
Rocky Point3.9 miles7
Dunham6.0 miles8
Turtle Lake6.3 miles9
Kings Point6.5 miles7
Mountain View (historical)6.6 miles9

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 KerrAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q955846The 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 1853181. 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.