Yakt, Montana

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Kalispell Southwest census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59925. It stands on McGregor Creek. The Survey maps it on the Thompson Lakes quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Yakt within Flathead County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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.

1920 USGS Jennings quadrangle1:125000
1935 USGS Thompson Lakes quadrangle1:96000
1935 USGS Thompson Lakes quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1942 USGS Thompson Lakes quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Thompson Lakes quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Libby quadrangle1:100000
1997 USGS Thompson Lakes quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

118 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Yakt (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 851 acres in total. 53 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	53
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	32
Recreation and ceremony	16
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Smoking	6
Debris and open burning	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

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
9 September 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	TALLULAH CREEK
6 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	LOWER THOMPSON
6 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	LOST LAKE
5 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Northwestern Land Office	not named
4 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	MEADOW PEAK
3 September 2001	Smoking	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	not named
23 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	BAR Z
21 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	EAST MEADOW PEAK

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
Pine Prairie	16.0 miles	9
Marion	19.0 miles	9
Niarada	25.9 miles	7
Kila	29.8 miles	10
Hog Heaven (historical)	30.6 miles	8
Rhodes	33.1 miles	11
Batavia	33.2 miles	12
Ashley (historical)	37.5 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1796149. 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.