Armstead, Montana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Clark Canyon-Horse Prairie census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59725. The Survey maps it on the Red Rock quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Armstead within Beaverhead County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1955 USGS Dubois quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Dubois quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS Red Rock quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1987 USGS Lima quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Lima quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

17 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Armstead (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 18,550 acres in total. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Natural	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
2 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Central Land Office	INTERSTATE
29 August 2014	Natural	under an acre	Dillon Field Office	CLARK CANYON HUB
29 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	70 acres	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	CAMEAHWAIT
27 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Beaverhead County	CURRY CREEK
24 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Central Land Office	MM40
23 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	3,000 acres	Dillon Field Office	MAUER MOUNTAIN
23 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	15,387 acres	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	CLARKS CANYON
31 July 2003	Natural	15 acres	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	MAUER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Beaverhead County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Armstead (historical): 3 occurrences, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Vanadium, Uranium, REE, Nickel, Chromium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Fluorine-Fluorite, Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Cedar Creek	Phosphorus-Phosphates, Fluorine-Fluorite, Uranium	Occurrence
Cedar Creek Syncline	Phosphorus-Phosphates, Vanadium, Uranium, REE, Nickel, Chromium, Fluorine-Fluorite	Prospect
Peterson Flat Syncline	Phosphorus-Phosphates, Chromium, Uranium, Vanadium, REE, Nickel, Fluorine-Fluorite	Prospect
Armstead Area Deposit	Aluminum	Occurrence
Armstead Area Deposit	Aluminum	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Beaverhead 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
Red Rock	5.5 miles	10
Grayling	5.6 miles	16
Dalys	9.0 miles	16
Frenchie Place	9.6 miles	16
Grant	11.0 miles	11
Barretts	12.8 miles	14
Kidd	13.2 miles	11
Centerville (historical)	14.0 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1797309. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.