Bay Horse, Montana

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the East Powder River census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59314. The Survey maps it on the Bay Horse quadrangle.

Bay Horse within Powder River County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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.

1954 USGS Ekalaka quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Ekalaka quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Ekalaka quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Ekalaka quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Bay Horse quadrangle1:24000
1980 USGS Broadus quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

20 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Bay Horse between 1993 and 2019, burning about 1,649 acres in total. 19 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	19
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
3 August 2013	Natural	1.1 acres	Buffalo Field Office	GLEASON FIRE
27 August 2019	Natural	under an acre	Buffalo Field Office	3 BAR
26 August 2017	Natural	724 acres	Miles City Field Office	BAY HORSE
24 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40 acres	Eastern Land Office	WARE
22 August 1995	Natural	2.0 acres	Miles City Field Office	MAXWELL
2 August 2013	Natural	1.5 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	13-1245
18 August 2006	Natural	32 acres	Eastern Land Office	not named
18 August 2006	Natural	33 acres	Miles City Field Office	NORTH FORK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Biddle

Every fire recorded in Powder River County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bay Horse: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Bay Horse Creek	Uranium	Occurrence
	Portwine Prospect	Uranium	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Powder River 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
Biddle	12.7 miles	8
Moores (historical)	15.6 miles	8
Moorhead	16.2 miles	8
Belle Creek	25.1 miles	8
Sayle	26.0 miles	10
Broadus	28.9 miles	8
Sonnette	29.1 miles	10
Epsie	31.3 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 768564. 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.