South Fork, Montana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the South Fork census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59926. It stands on Alpha Creek. The Survey maps it on the Doris Mountain quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

South Fork within Flathead County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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 Doris Mountain quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Doris Mountain quadrangle1:24000
1994 USGS Doris Mountain quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

135 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 135 fires within 5 miles of South Fork (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,653 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 11 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
Recreation and ceremony	57
Natural	28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Arson/incendiarism	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Smoking	5
Debris and open burning	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Fireworks	3
Other causes	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
8 September 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Flathead National Forest	WATER TANK
8 September 2006	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Flathead National Forest	TREE HOUSE
30 September 2004	Natural	under an acre	Flathead National Forest	NORTH DORIS
3 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Flathead National Forest	HUNGRY HORSE
28 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Flathead National Forest	EMERY 2
25 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Flathead National Forest	2861
20 September 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Flathead National Forest	not named
15 September 2012	Smoking	under an acre	Flathead National Forest	RACE TRACK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Wagsmith Villa (historical)	0.0 miles	11
Martin City	3.5 miles	12
Hungry Horse	3.9 miles	12
Coram	5.3 miles	12
Conkelley	7.2 miles	12
Columbia Falls	9.4 miles	11
Pine Park	9.5 miles	11
Big Sky Colonial Manor	10.3 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1796159. 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.