Wurtz Hill, Montana

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Columbia Falls census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59928. It stands on Kintla Creek. The Survey maps it on the Trailcreek quadrangle.

Wurtz Hill within Flathead County

On record in Wurtz Hill

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Wurtz Homesteadlisted 1996 · 0.3 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1906 USGS Kinta Lakes quadrangle1:125000
1906 USGS Kintla Lakes quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1938 USGS Kintla Lakes quadrangle1:125000
1957 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Trailcreek quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Whitefish Range quadrangle1:100000
1994 USGS Trailcreek quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

50 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Wurtz Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,119 acres in total. 38 started naturally. 4 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
Natural	38
Arson/incendiarism	4
Debris and open burning	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Other causes	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 1999	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	MUD MEADOW
3 September 2006	Natural	1.5 acres	Glacier National Park	STARVATION
18 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Flathead National Forest	CENTER MOUNTAIN
10 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	ASHLEY
9 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	ROUND PRAIRIE
8 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Flathead National Forest	MOOSE FLATS
8 August 1997	Natural	under an acre	Flathead National Forest	KINTLA ROAD
7 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Flathead National Forest	TEEPEE LAKE

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
Trailcreek	1.4 miles	13
Ford	2.1 miles	13
Reuter (historical)	6.2 miles	14
Polebridge	11.1 miles	14
Radnor	24.8 miles	12
Olney	26.5 miles	12
Lupfer	29.7 miles	11
Vista	30.4 miles	12

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 Q122548468

The 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 793562. 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.