Scotchville, Montana

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Libby census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59923. It stands on Alder Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tony Peak quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Scotchville within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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.

1920 USGS Jennings quadrangle1:125000
1935 USGS Thompson Lakes quadrangle1:96000
1935 USGS Thompson Lakes quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1942 USGS Thompson Lakes quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Tony Peak quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Libby quadrangle1:100000
1997 USGS Tony Peak quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

139 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 139 fires within 5 miles of Scotchville (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 263 acres in total. 55 started naturally. 1 was 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
Natural	55
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	37
Recreation and ceremony	20
Railroad operations and maintenance	15
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Debris and open burning	3
Arson/incendiarism	1
Fireworks	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
6 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	FISHER 9.4
5 September 2018	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	RAILROAD
5 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	BUTLER II
4 September 2016	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	RAIL ROAD
28 September 2018	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	NINE MILE
21 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	533A SPUR
17 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Kootenai National Forest	MCMILLAN #2
17 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	FISHER 8.9 CG

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln 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
Jennings	4.9 miles	15
Ripley	9.6 miles	16
Pioneer Junction	11.4 miles	14
White Haven	11.5 miles	14
Warland (historical)	13.9 miles	9
Libby	14.5 miles	14
Green Acres	15.4 miles	14
Happys Inn	17.4 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1782438. 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.