McCarthyville, Montana

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the South Fork census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59916. It stands on Giefer Creek. The Survey maps it on the Blacktail quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

McCarthyville within Flathead 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.

1913 USGS Marias Pass quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Cut Bank quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1963 USGS Cut Bank quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Cut Bank quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Blacktail quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Hungry Horse Reservoir quadrangle1:100000
1994 USGS Blacktail quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

21 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of McCarthyville (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 53,098 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
Natural	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Debris and open burning	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
8 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Flathead National Forest	SKYLAND
27 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Flathead National Forest	MILE MARKER 193
2 September 1998	Natural	8,800 acres	Flathead National Forest	CHALLENGE
18 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Flathead National Forest	CHALLENGE 2
1 September 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Flathead National Forest	SNOW SLIP POWERLINE
1 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Flathead National Forest	DEVIL CREEK
7 August 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Flathead National Forest	DEVIL CREEK
6 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Flathead National Forest	DEVILS CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Blacktail	0.6 miles	12
Snowslip	1.1 miles	12
Singleshot	2.7 miles	13
Nimrod	7.2 miles	13
Essex	9.2 miles	11
Pinnacle	12.7 miles	13
Three Forks	12.9 miles	14
Canyon Creek Boat Landing	17.8 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1795992. 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.