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Bannack, Montana

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Clark Canyon-Horse Prairie census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59725. It lies near Hangmans Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Bannack quadrangle.

Bannack within Beaverhead County

On record in Bannack

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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.

Fires near this place

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Bannack between 1994 and 2020, burning about 593 acres in total. 7 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
Natural7
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
1 September 2016Naturalunder an acreCentral Land OfficeBANNACK
1 August 2020Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead CountyBLUE DOT MINE
1 August 2020Natural188 acresCentral Land OfficeBON ACCORD
27 July 2017Natural3.5 acresDillon Field OfficeMAGPIE
23 July 2019Natural151 acresDillon Field OfficeBANNACK
23 July 1994Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National Forestnot named
11 July 1994Natural250 acresBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestBADGER PASS
27 June 2016Other causesunder an acreDillon Field OfficeCOLD CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Beaverhead County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 88 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 88 workings within 5 miles of Bannack: 46 past producers, 23 occurrences, 11 prospects, 5 producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Zinc, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bannack DistrictGold, Copper, Silver, Lead, Zinc, BismuthPast Producer1862
Blue WingSilver, Gold, CopperPast Producer
Blue Wing DistrictSilver, Lead, Copper, Gold, ManganesePast Producer1864
Charter Oak MineSilver, Lead, Copper, Zinc, GoldPast Producer1865
Charter Oak MineLead, Zinc, Gold, Copper, SilverPast Producer
Cottontail MineSilver, Lead, Gold, Copper, Zinc, ManganesePast Producer1865
Del Monte MineSilver, Gold, Copper, Lead, AntimonyPast Producer1865
Del Monte MineSilver, Zinc, Lead, CopperPast Producer
Excelsior MineSilver, Gold, Copper, Bismuth, Manganese, TelluriumPast Producer1902
Excelsior MineGold, Silver, CopperPast Producer

Every working recorded in Beaverhead County

Storms near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bannack in 1 storm report in 2020: 1 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2020Heavy RainBannack-Mesonet station bspm8 site uscrn.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Yankee Flat (historical)0.2 miles19
Centerville (historical)1.0 miles19
Frenchie Place7.0 miles16
Ermont Mill8.4 miles18
Argenta10.8 miles19
Grant11.2 miles11
Grayling12.2 miles16
Dalys12.6 miles16

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on BannackAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q806862The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 802010. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.