Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Birdseye MT FD got new station in 2015

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- this is link to county gis - hopefully it shows the aerial photo of
the new station - I can see the yellow paint of the handicap parking
spots - not sure if it is aerial photography or really good satellite

this is a story about "research via the Internet"

1. I am updating the zerg90 map of fire stations in Lewis and Clark
County Montana

2. the county has map on their website of all the fire districts - I
notice that Birdseye FD is now showing 2 stations

3. I go to Google Maps - I find 2 listings for Birdseye fire stations
- checking the street view from 2012, I can find just the old station
- the 2nd 'station' is just a big white bld with 1 bay door surrounded
on 4 sides by a fence -so its not a fire station - its a farm bld of
some sort

4. Using Google I find pictures of a new station that was built in
2015 - and a newspaper article - but no address or location info -
pictures show 6 bays ish with office attached

5. Going to Google satellite view I can see a new building near the
Sta 2 location - but the office is on the left side instead of the
right side

6. Going to the County GIS webpage - and selecting 2017 aerial photo -
I can now see the new station - it is 200 feet north of the other new
building that has the office on the wrong side - the assessor info
shows this as Birdseye Station 2 at 5316 Birdseye Rd

7. Bottom line - Google Maps has their marker only off by maybe 200
feet - but the 2012 street view and the ?2014 satellite view are of no
help

8. 2nd bottom line - sometimes it takes a while to get thru the muck
and more of the Internet - the info is out there - but it can take a
while to latch onto it

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