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Singleshot, Montana

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Glacier National Park census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59936. It stands on Devil Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mount Bradley quadrangle.

Singleshot within Flathead County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

26 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Singleshot between 1992 and 2020, burning about 53,101 acres in total. 15 started naturally. None 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
Natural15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1

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
27 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlathead National ForestMILE MARKER 193
2 September 2000Naturalunder an acreGlacier National ParkSCALPLOCK
2 September 1998Natural8,800 acresFlathead National ForestCHALLENGE
18 September 1998Naturalunder an acreFlathead National ForestCHALLENGE 2
1 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlathead National ForestSNOW SLIP POWERLINE
1 September 2013Naturalunder an acreFlathead National ForestDEVIL CREEK
7 August 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlathead National ForestDEVIL CREEK
6 August 2004Natural2.0 acresFlathead National ForestVINEGAR

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 Singleshot: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Great NorthernCopperPast Producer
LippincottCopperPast Producer
OkedaleCopperPast 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Snowslip1.6 miles12
Blacktail2.7 miles12
McCarthyville (historical)2.7 miles12
Nimrod4.7 miles13
Essex7.3 miles11
Pinnacle11.8 miles13
Three Forks13.0 miles14
Canyon Creek Boat Landing15.4 miles11

Elsewhere

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.

Wikidata item Q122589589The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 790548. 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.