Barretts, Montana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Dillon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59725. The Survey maps it on the Dillon West quadrangle.

Barretts within Beaverhead County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

1893 USGS Dillon quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1955 USGS Dillon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Dillon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Dillon quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Dillon quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Dillon West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1965 USGS Dillon quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Dillon quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Barretts between 1996 and 2018, burning about 36 acres in total. 3 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
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
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
8 September 1998	Natural	1.3 acres	Central Land Office	LOVELLS
2 September 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	BARBECUE
3 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	VABM MOONEY
11 August 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Central Land Office	HIGHWAY 278 MMP11
30 May 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Dillon Field Office	DALYS
22 April 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	2.0 acres	Central Land Office	not named
10 April 2014	Debris and open burning	31 acres	Dillon Field Office	HENNEBERRY CABIN
8 January 1999	Natural	1.3 acres	Butte Field Office	LOVELLS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Beaverhead County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Barretts: 6 occurrences, 3 producers, 2 prospects, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Pumice, Silica, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Clay. 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	Recorded
Barretts Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Daly's Spur Area	Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Nickel, Chromium, Vanadium, REE, Fluorine-Fluorite	Prospect
Dalys Spur Area	Phosphorus-Phosphates, REE, Vanadium, Uranium, Nickel, Chromium, Fluorine-Fluorite	Unknown
Flemings White Clay Prospect	Aluminum, Clay	Occurrence
Unnamed Clay Occurrence	Bentonite	Occurrence	Bentonite
Brown Springs	Geothermal	Producer
Daly's Spur	Silica	Past Producer	Surface
Daly's Spur	Silica	Prospect
Lovell Springs	Geothermal	Producer
Unnamed Bentonite	Clay	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
Ford	2.0 miles	14
Dalys	3.8 miles	16
Grayling	7.2 miles	16
Frenchie Place	7.5 miles	16
Dillon	8.0 miles	14
East Bench (historical)	12.0 miles	16
Argenta	12.1 miles	19
Fairview (historical)	12.5 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 768526. 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.