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Kiowa, Montana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1968. It stands in the Blackfeet Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59417. It lies near Two Medicine Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Kiowa quadrangle. It stands 5,076 feet above sea level.

Kiowa within Glacier County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

82 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Kiowa between 1992 and 2019, burning about 80 acres in total. 5 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
Recreation and ceremony32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Debris and open burning8
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Fireworks3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking2

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 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBlackfeet AgencyANN FIRE
8 September 2005Naturalunder an acreBlackfeet AgencyNEW ROBE
5 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreBlackfeet AgencyRED BLANKET FIRE
5 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBlackfeet AgencySTUMP FIRE
5 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBlackfeet AgencySWEETPINE
25 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresBlackfeet AgencyCONNELLY
14 September 1996Naturalunder an acreBlackfeet AgencySWTPINELTG
7 August 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBlackfeet AgencyGROOM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Glacier County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Kiowa: 7 occurrences, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Titanium, 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
East Kiowa No. 2 ExtensionIron, TitaniumOccurrence
Kiowa Junction DepositIron, TitaniumOccurrence
Lower Kiowa DepositsTitanium, IronOccurrence
South ForkIron, TitaniumOccurrence
Two Medicine RidgeIron, TitaniumOccurrence
Cutbank RidgeIronOccurrence
High Knob DepositIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Glacier County

Storms near this place

3 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kiowa in 3 storm reports between 2004 and 2023: 1 hail, 1 flood, 1 debris flow. 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
June 2023Debris FlowKiowa$50,000Glacier National Park reported that portions of Montana Highway 49 and the Looking Glass Highway were closed due to debris flows from heavy rain.
June 2011FloodKiowa-Two Medicine River and Badger Creek near Browning rose one to one and a half feet above flood stage.
June 2004HailKiowa-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Glacier 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
Star3.1 miles9
East Glacier Park Village7.4 miles11
Starr School7.5 miles9
East Glacier Park7.9 miles11
Durham8.4 miles9
Bison11.1 miles12
False Summit12.1 miles11
South Browning13.6 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 KiowaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q124220117The 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 773074. 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.