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Lupfer, Montana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Whitefish census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59927. It stands on Logan Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tally Lake quadrangle.

Lupfer within Flathead County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

176 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 176 fires within 5 miles of Lupfer between 1992 and 2020, burning about 86 acres in total. 26 started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined59
Recreation and ceremony44
Natural26
Debris and open burning20
Smoking7
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks1

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 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreNorthwestern Land Officenot named
8 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreNorthwestern Land Officenot named
8 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwestern Land Officenot named
8 September 2005Smokingunder an acreNorthwestern Land Officenot named
7 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeWOODS LAKE
7 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeLUPFER FIRE
6 September 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlathead National Forestnot named
4 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeSTILLWATER RIVER #2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Flathead County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lupfer: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Gold, Lead. 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
Wort ProspectCopper, Gold, LeadPast Producer

Every working recorded in Flathead County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lupfer in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2016: 2 hail. 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
July 2016HailLupfer$16,000A member of the public located 5 miles west-southwest of Lupfer reported ping pong size hail, which dented 3 vehicles and broke the windshield of 1 vehicle. There were also many plants defoliated by the hail.
July 2011HailLupfer-Hail reported at the Talley Lake campground by the Forest service was estimated at 0.88 inches in diameter.

Every storm recorded in Flathead 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
Olney5.7 miles12
Vista6.3 miles12
Round Prairie7.1 miles12
Ramsey (historical)9.7 miles12
Happy Haven10.4 miles12
Whitefish10.5 miles12
Radnor11.8 miles12
Rhodes14.2 miles11

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.

Wikidata item Q122598768The 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 786718. 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.