Bearpaw, Montana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Chinook census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59523. It lies near White Pine Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Big John Butte quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Bearpaw within Blaine County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1953 USGS Havre quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Havre quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Havre quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Warrick quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1984 USGS Big John Butte quadrangle1:24000
1993 USGS Rocky Boy quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

4 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Bearpaw (historical) between 2012 and 2020, burning about 77 acres in total. 4 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	4

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
4 August 2020	Natural	11 acres	Blaine County	SMALL HOUSE
22 August 2012	Natural	15 acres	Rocky Boy's Agency	W.MINERS GULCH
9 July 2016	Natural	under an acre	Rocky Boy's Agency	LLOYD
21 July 2012	Natural	50 acres	Malta Field Office	ROCKY TOP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Blaine County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Bearpaw (historical): 4 prospects, 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Lead, Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Barium-Barite. 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
Bearpaw Mtns	Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc	Occurrence	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite
Black Diamond Claim	Iron	Prospect
Edith M. Claim	Copper, Gold, Silver	Prospect
Rex Claim	Gold, Silver	Occurrence
Unnamed Lead & Barium	Lead, Barium-Barite	Occurrence
Edison Claim	Silver, Lead	Prospect
Silver King Claim	Silver, Lead	Prospect

Every working recorded in Blaine 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
Hungry Hollow (historical)	4.3 miles	8
Maddux	8.2 miles	8
Lloyd	9.6 miles	9
Sour Dough Flat (historical)	17.6 miles	7
Riedel (historical)	19.0 miles	7
Cleveland	19.8 miles	10
Hosey (historical)	25.4 miles	7
Lohman	25.7 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1722409. 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.