GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION

Flathead County Fire Districts

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Data Provider Flathead County GIS
Date 2016
Content Type Downloadable Data
Abstract Legal requirements for the petitioning and creation of Rural Fire District can be found in MCA Title 7, Chapter 33, Part 21 and is summarized as follows:The creation of a Rural Fire Districts is begun by a petition from (a) landowner(s). After confirmation from the plat room that the petition contains signatures of 50% or more of the area of the privately owned lands included in the proposed district, the petition is submitted to the commissioners for approval. Resolutions granting the petitions can be found in the Commissioner's Journals, and are sent to the GIS department by the Clerk to the Board. The GIS department digitizes legal descriptions provided in the resolution and adjusts them to the Parcel Polygon data.Annexations to fire districts follow the same procedures as the creation of a fire district. The GIS Fire District boundaries will be updated as fire district annexations occur or new districts are created. Also, when incorporated city limit annexations occur, these areas will be removed from the rural fire district boundaries.One feature included in this data although it did not follow aforementioned legal proceedings is the "WHITEFISH RURAL CONTRACT" feature. This feature was included in a "1984 Billing List for Rural Fire Contracts" prior to the creation of the Whitefish Rural Fire District, but it was not included in the creation of the district nor in subsequent annexations. This feature has been included at Necille Lorang's request on behalf of the city of Whitefish.
Purpose This dataset is used for general mapping and query purposes.
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Neither Flathead County, nor any of its employees, makes any warranty or guarantee to this data and assumes no legal responsibility for the information. Information is derived from multiple sources, subject to constant change, and may be of questionable accuracy, currency and completeness. Data is provided for informational purposes only. Primary information sources should be consulted for verification of data. Deriving conclusions from this data is done at the user's risk.This data does not necessarily meet mapping, surveying, or engineering standards and is not intended for design purposes. User should use caution when overlaying other datasets as it may not display correctly with other layers.
Data Access http://flathead.mt.gov/opencounty/ocSharedFoldersAdministrationAPI/api_download.php?access_key=287054057&file_path=\\County_Shape_Files\FireDistrict.zip
Distributor Flathead County GIS
800 South Main Street
 Kalispell, MT 59901
Telephone: 406-758-5540
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Fax: 406-758-5840
Email: gis_online@flathead.mt.gov
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