Round Prairie, Montana

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Whitefish census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59937. The Survey maps it on the Beaver Lake quadrangle.

Round Prairie 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.

1943 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:125000
1957 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Beaver Lake quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:100000
1994 USGS Beaver Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

158 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 158 fires within 5 miles of Round Prairie between 1992 and 2020, burning about 220 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 2 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	44
Debris and open burning	35
Recreation and ceremony	34
Natural	24
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Fireworks	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	2
Arson/incendiarism	2

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
7 September 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	LION MTN
7 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	WOODS LAKE
6 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	not named
6 September 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Flathead National Forest	not named
5 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	not named
4 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	FARM TO MARKET
4 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	not named
3 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	FISH HOUSE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Flathead County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Round Prairie: 1 producer, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper, Gold, Lead, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Hamilton Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Kaolinitic Clay	Clay	Occurrence
Wort Prospect	Copper, Gold, Lead	Past Producer

Every working 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
Vista	4.7 miles	12
Ramsey (historical)	4.9 miles	12
Whitefish	5.0 miles	12
Happy Haven	5.2 miles	12
Lupfer	7.1 miles	11
Rhodes	8.7 miles	11
Halfmoon	10.2 miles	12
La Salle	11.7 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 793884. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.