Alma, Montana

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Joplin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59531. The Survey maps it on the Bobcat Coulee SE quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Alma within Liberty County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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.

1919 USGS Alma quadrangle1:125000
1954 USGS Shelby quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Shelby quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Bobcat Coulee SE quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Chester quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

3 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Alma (historical) in 2018, burning about 2 acres in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Central Land Office	not named
14 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Central Land Office	not named
20 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Northeastern Land Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Liberty 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
Sage Creek Colony	11.1 miles	7
Old Banks Place	17.2 miles	7
Buelow	18.1 miles	7
Joplin	18.1 miles	7
Hill	18.3 miles	6
Eagle Creek Colony	21.9 miles	6
Chester	22.8 miles	8
Whitlash	23.8 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1748635. 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.