Polebridge, Montana

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 6 records

• W. L. Adair General Mercantile Historic Districtlisted 1986
• Vance Lodgelisted 1994
• Wurtz Homesteadlisted 1996
• Big Creek Ranger Station Historic Districtlisted 2015
• Ford Schoolhouselisted 2022
• Billy Kruse Cabinlisted 2021

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.

• 1906 USGS Kinta Lakes quadrangle1:125000
• 1906 USGS Kintla Lakes quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
• 1938 USGS Kintla Lakes quadrangle1:125000
• 1957 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1960 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Polebridge quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1981 USGS Whitefish Range quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Polebridge quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Polebridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 197 acres in total. 41 started naturally. 3 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Reuter (historical)
• Crystal Point
• Packers Roost
• Radnor
• Yakt (historical)

Every fire recorded in Flathead County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Polebridge in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2006: 2 hail, 1 flood. 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.

Every storm recorded in Flathead County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 789068. 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.

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.