Negro Prairie, Montana

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Creston-Bigfork census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59911. It lies near Deer Island. The Survey maps it on the Bigfork quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Negro Prairie within Flathead County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1943 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:125000
1957 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Bigfork quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Bigfork quadrangle1:24000
1994 USGS Bigfork quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

205 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 205 fires within 5 miles of Negro Prairie (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 178 acres in total. 22 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	89
Debris and open burning	45
Natural	22
Recreation and ceremony	21
Power generation/transmission/distribution	9
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	5
Arson/incendiarism	5
Fireworks	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
Mud Lake (historical)	1.0 miles	12
Swan River (historical)	1.8 miles	12
Swan River	1.9 miles	12
Bear Creek Village	3.6 miles	12
Bigfork	4.9 miles	12
Holt	5.6 miles	12
Creston	7.9 miles	12
Jessup	8.6 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1795981. 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.