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Lakeview, Montana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Lima-Centennial Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59739. It stands on Shambow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Slide Mountain quadrangle. 15 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Lakeview within Beaverhead County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

6 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Lakeview between 2007 and 2020, burning about 1,166 acres in total. 3 started naturally. None was 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
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning1

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
13 September 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestODELL CREEK
12 September 2008Debris and open burning1,163 acresRed Rock Lakes National Wildlife RefugeRED ROCK FIRE
14 July 2007Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestBALDY
6 June 2020Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestCURRY CREEK
11 June 2020Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead CountyTURNER RANCH HEADQUARTERS
2 November 2020Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresCaribou-Targhee National ForestSPRING

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Beaverhead County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Lakeview: 2 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Fluorine-Fluorite, Uranium. 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
Camp FrigidPhosphorus-Phosphates, Fluorine-Fluorite, UraniumUnknown
Lakeview PlacerGoldOccurrencePlacer
Lakeview PlacerGoldOccurrence

Every working recorded in Beaverhead County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lakeview in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain. 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 2023Thunderstorm WindLakeview-Peak hourly gust as measured by RAWS station RRDM8 near Red Rock. Time of occurrence based on radar.
June 2020Heavy RainLakeview-Mesonet station lvrm8 1.0 sw Lakeview.
June 2020Heavy RainLakeview-Mesonet station 5.9 n Lakeview rrdm8.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindLakeview-A wind gust of 57KT (66MPH) was reported 6 miles N of Lakeview and was associated with thunderstorm outflow.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindLakeview-A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 66 mph at Lakeview 6N (Red Rock RAWS site - elevation 6690 feet).

Every storm recorded in Beaverhead 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
Monida26.8 miles10
Lima41.5 miles11
Dell47.8 miles12
Kidd51.8 miles11
Guntner Place53.7 miles14
Bishop Place56.1 miles14
Red Rock57.3 miles10
Nicholia (historical)57.3 miles10

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 LakeviewAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4257458The 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 773188. 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.