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Post Creek, Montana

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Flathead Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59865. It stands on Ashley Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fort Connah quadrangle.

Post Creek within Lake County

On record in Post Creek

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

52 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Post Creek between 1993 and 2020, burning about 138 acres in total. 5 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
Debris and open burning18
Equipment and vehicle use10
Recreation and ceremony6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism5
Natural5
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
4 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreFlathead Agency2 CREEK LN
2 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlathead AgencyASHLEY
18 September 2001Power generation/transmission/distribution8.0 acresFlathead AgencyDUBLIN
12 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlathead AgencyOLSON
9 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLake CountyNARROWS ISLAND
8 August 2005Naturalunder an acreBitterroot National ForestBELL CROSSING
5 August 2005Smokingunder an acreFlathead AgencyASHLEY CRK
30 August 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlathead AgencyWALKIN GRIZZLY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Post Creek in 1 storm report in 2022: 1 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 2022HailPost Creek-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lake 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
Allentown2.9 miles6
Kicking Horse4.4 miles6
Charlo4.8 miles6
Saint Ignatius5.5 miles7
Ronan9.0 miles8
Moiese9.2 miles6
Ravalli9.5 miles6
Round Butte12.6 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 775396. 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.