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Kootenai Falls, Montana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Troy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59935. It stands on Kool Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kootenai Falls quadrangle.

Kootenai Falls within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

146 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 146 fires within 5 miles of Kootenai Falls between 1992 and 2020, burning about 13,240 acres in total. 59 started naturally. 9 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
Natural59
Recreation and ceremony24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Railroad operations and maintenance13
Arson/incendiarism9
Debris and open burning9
Fireworks4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

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
7 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreKootenai National ForestSWANSONS LODGE
7 September 2004Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreKootenai National Forest1333
6 September 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreKootenai National ForestTHROOPS
5 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreKootenai National ForestGRAVEL
29 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreKootenai National ForestOLD HWY 2
26 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreKootenai National ForestDORMAN'S RAILROAD
20 September 2003Naturalunder an acreKootenai National ForestTHREE GIMPS
2 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKootenai National ForestNINNEMAN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Kootenai Falls: 3 occurrences, 2 prospects, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Talc-Soapstone, Silver, Lead, Platinum. 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
Bee and ZeeGold, SilverUnknown
CraterLeadProspect
RempSilver, LeadProspect
Troy AreaPlatinumOccurrenceUnknown
China CreekGoldPast Producer
Lynx CreekTalc-SoapstoneOccurrence
Unnamed TalcTalc-SoapstoneOccurrence

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kootenai Falls in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2025: 2 heavy rain, 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
February 2025Heavy RainKootenai Falls-Up to 2.00 inches of rain fell from Bull Lake to Noxon, heaviest on the evening of the 23rd.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindKootenai Falls-Law enforcement reported a tree down which blocked the south bound lane of highway 56 between mile marker 23 and 24 for a period of time.
October 2012Heavy RainKootenai Falls-The rainfall total for 24 hours was 2.10 inches. This was measured 13 miles north northeast of Heron.

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Troy5.8 miles14
Green Acres11.9 miles14
Yakt11.9 miles9
Libby12.7 miles14
Bull Lake14.2 miles14
White Haven15.8 miles14
Pioneer Junction16.0 miles14
Ripley18.1 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 785839. 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.