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Bearmouth, Montana

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Drummond census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59832. It stands on Antelope Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bearmouth quadrangle.

Bearmouth within Granite County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

72 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Bearmouth between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,396 acres in total. 38 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
Natural38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning2

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
9 September 2003Naturalunder an acreSouthwestern Land Officenot named
26 September 2005Debris and open burning5.0 acresSouthwestern Land Officenot named
14 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthwestern Land OfficeMILE MARKER 141
13 September 1998Naturalunder an acreSouthwestern Land OfficeDRY MULKEY
6 August 2020Naturalunder an acreSouthwestern Land OfficePACKER GULCH
6 August 2020Naturalunder an acreSouthwestern Land OfficeDRY MULKEY GULCH
4 August 2004Naturalunder an acreSouthwestern Land Officenot named
3 August 1999Natural2.0 acresSouthwestern Land OfficePACKER GULCH #2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Granite County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Bearmouth: 7 unknowns, 6 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Limestone, General, Silver, Aluminum. 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
Lucky Boy ProspectBarium-BariteOccurrence
Mitchell Copper MineCopperUnknown
Mitchell Copper ProspectLead, CopperProducerVein
T & H Extension ClaimIronUnknown
Bear Creek PlacersGold, SilverPast Producer1865
Clay Deposit Near Antelope CreekAluminumOccurrenceFeldspar, Kaolin, Montmorillonite
First Chance MineSilverOccurrence
Unnamed Aluminum DepositAluminumOccurrence
Clark ForkLimestone, GeneralUnknown
Dry & Wet Mulkey GulchesLimestone, GeneralUnknown

Every working recorded in Granite County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bearmouth in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2022: 2 hail, 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
August 2008Heavy RainBearmouth$1,000National Weather Service employee reported that heavy rainfall from a thunderstorms caused a rock and debris slide with some overwash onto the frontage road near Bearmouth Lodge.
July 2022HailBearmouth-The hail accumulated to a depth of 2 feet.
July 2008HailBearmouth-The Saddle Mountian lookout reported up to penny size hail and heavy rain.

Every storm recorded in Granite 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
Ozan4.7 miles19
Bradman5.7 miles19
Beartown5.7 miles19
Byrne6.5 miles20
Springtown6.8 miles19
Nimrod7.8 miles20
Garnet7.9 miles19
Stump Town (historical)8.2 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 802017. 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.