Summit, Montana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Glacier National Park census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59434. The Survey maps it on the Summit quadrangle.

Summit within Glacier County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1913 USGS Marias Pass quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Cut Bank quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1963 USGS Cut Bank quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Cut Bank quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Summit quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Hungry Horse Reservoir quadrangle1:100000
1995 USGS Summit quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

10 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Summit between 1992 and 2017, burning about 53,067 acres in total. 8 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
Natural	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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 2003	Natural	under an acre	Flathead National Forest	SKYLAND
27 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Flathead National Forest	MILE MARKER 193
2 September 1998	Natural	8,800 acres	Flathead National Forest	CHALLENGE
18 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Flathead National Forest	CHALLENGE 2
18 August 1992	Natural	90 acres	Flathead National Forest	not named
17 August 1992	Natural	under an acre	Flathead National Forest	not named
11 August 2017	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	ELK MOUNTAIN
23 July 2007	Natural	44,176 acres	Flathead National Forest	SKYLAND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Glacier 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
False Summit	5.3 miles	11
Bison	6.6 miles	12
East Glacier Park	11.1 miles	11
East Glacier Park Village	11.2 miles	11
Kiowa	16.4 miles	10
Star	17.2 miles	9
Durham	18.6 miles	9
Starr School	21.8 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 791661. 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.