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Kicking Horse, Montana

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Flathead Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59824. The Survey maps it on the Fort Connah quadrangle. 76 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,064 feet above sea level.

Kicking Horse within Lake County

Population over time

3 figures

Kicking Horse fell from 80 to 76 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
200080
2010286+206 (+258%)
202076-210 (-73%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

120 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of Kicking Horse between 1994 and 2020, burning about 173 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 7 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 ceremony52
Debris and open burning28
Natural11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use7
Fireworks4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlathead AgencyMARSH CREEK
4 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreFlathead Agency2 CREEK LN
29 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlathead AgencyMCDONALD
29 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlathead AgencyHAMMERDAM4
28 September 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlathead AgencyHAMMERD
24 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlathead AgencyCANAL RD
23 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minor8.0 acresFlathead AgencyWOODCOCK
22 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlathead AgencyHAMERDAM#4

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Kicking Horse: 5 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitsSand 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
Allentown1.8 miles6
Post Creek4.4 miles6
Ronan4.9 miles8
Charlo5.4 miles6
Saint Ignatius9.8 miles7
Pablo9.9 miles8
Dunham10.7 miles8
Round Butte11.0 miles8

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 Kicking HorseAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q955952The 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 1867339. 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.