Lakeview, Montana

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the West Yellowstone census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59758. It stands on Dave Johnson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mount Hebgen quadrangle.

Lakeview within Gallatin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1955 USGS Ashton quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Ashton quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Tepee Creek quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1960 USGS Ashton quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Mount Hebgen quadrangle1:24000
1993 USGS Hebgen Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
2000 USGS Mount Hebgen quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

43 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Lakeview between 1992 and 2019, burning about 143 acres in total. 12 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
Recreation and ceremony	14
Natural	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Smoking	2
Debris and open burning	2
Fireworks	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	TRAPPER CREEK
5 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	CONTOUR
30 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	HEBGEN MT.
30 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	1.5 acres	Custer Gallatin National Forest	TARGHEE
28 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	52 PICKUP
19 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	GRAYCROFT RIDGE
19 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	not named
15 September 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	VALENTINE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gallatin 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Grayling	2.5 miles	12
Romsett Summer Home Area	4.2 miles	14
Lonesome Hurst Summer Home Area	4.5 miles	14
Lakeshore Summer Home Area	4.8 miles	14
Railroad Summer Home Area	11.4 miles	14
Corette	11.9 miles	14
West Yellowstone	12.2 miles	13
Riverside	13.4 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 785929. 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.