Mud Lake, Montana

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Creston-Bigfork census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59911. It stands on Rocky Creek. The Survey maps it on the Crater Lake quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Mud Lake 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.

1914 USGS Nyack quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Cut Bank quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1963 USGS Cut Bank quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Crater Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Cut Bank quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Hungry Horse Reservoir quadrangle1:100000
1994 USGS Crater Lake quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

194 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 194 fires within 5 miles of Mud Lake (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 178 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined	79
Debris and open burning	44
Natural	24
Recreation and ceremony	21
Power generation/transmission/distribution	9
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Arson/incendiarism	5
Smoking	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
8 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	BEAR CREEK
7 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	not named
4 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	STRAWBERRY LAKE 2
4 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	STRAWBERRY LAKE 3
3 September 2009	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	EAST ECHO LAKE
23 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	UPPER JEWEL BASIN RD
21 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	not named
21 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	AERO LANE

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
Negro Prairie (historical)	1.0 miles	12
Swan River (historical)	2.3 miles	12
Swan River	2.3 miles	12
Bear Creek Village	3.1 miles	12
Bigfork	5.5 miles	12
Holt	6.4 miles	12
Creston	8.8 miles	12
Jessup	9.3 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1795982. 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.