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Tarkio, Montana

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Alberton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59872. It lies near McGinty Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Tarkio quadrangle. It stands 2,936 feet above sea level.

Tarkio within Mineral County

On record in Tarkio

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

163 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 163 fires within 5 miles of Tarkio between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9,434 acres in total. 79 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
Natural79
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Recreation and ceremony16
Debris and open burning13
Equipment and vehicle use10
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Smoking5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Arson/incendiarism1
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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
9 September 2009Naturalunder an acreLolo National ForestMCMULLAN PEAK
6 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthwestern Land Officenot named
6 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLolo National ForestRIVULET EDDY
3 September 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLolo National ForestFISH CAMP
27 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresLolo National ForestRIVULET #2
2 September 1997Naturalunder an acreLolo National ForestTARKIO
2 September 1997Naturalunder an acreLolo National ForestSUNRISE CR
17 September 1998Naturalunder an acreLolo National ForestMICAYUNE GULCH 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mineral County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Tarkio: 10 past producers, 5 occurrences, 3 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Beryllium, Gemstone, Silica. 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
Coffee Pot LodeBeryllium, GemstonePast Producer
Quartz Creek Silica Rock DepositSilicaPast ProducerQuartz
Coffee Pot LodeBerylliumOccurrenceEmerald
Big Nugget PlacerGoldPast Producer
Gildersleeve PlacerGoldPast Producer
High Channel PlacerGoldOccurrencePlacer
Highbar PlacerGoldOccurrencePlacer
Highbar PlacerGoldUnknown
Meadow Creek PlacerGoldPast Producer
Meadow Creek PlacerGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Mineral County

Storms near this place

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tarkio in 1 storm report in 2007: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2007HailTarkio-Golf ball size hail was reported to KECI TV Meteorologist from a weather spotter in Tarkio.

Every storm recorded in Mineral 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
Quartz2.6 miles8
Crescent City (historical)5.3 miles8
Lozeau6.9 miles8
Westfall7.4 miles8
Cyr8.2 miles10
Riverbend10.3 miles8
Cedar Mouth (historical)12.7 miles8
Amador (historical)12.7 miles8

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.

Wikipedia article on TarkioAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7686277The 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 791898. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.