Beartown, Montana

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Drummond census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59832. It stands on Deep Creek. The Survey maps it on the Elevation Mountain quadrangle.

Beartown within Granite County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1919 USGS Drummond quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1921 USGS Drummond quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1947 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1960 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Elevation Mountain quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1984 USGS Missoula East quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

90 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Beartown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,350 acres in total. 62 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	62
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Debris and open burning	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	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
9 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Southwestern Land Office	MULKEY GULCH
7 September 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Southwestern Land Office	DEEP CREEK
5 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Missoula Field Office	SOUTHERN CROSS SPRIN
26 September 2005	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Southwestern Land Office	not named
26 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Southwestern Land Office	not named
26 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Butte Field Office	WASHOE CK.
16 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Southwestern Land Office	not named
13 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Southwestern Land Office	DRY MULKEY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Granite County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 119 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 119 workings within 5 miles of Beartown: 61 past producers, 27 occurrences, 26 unknowns, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Gold, Silver, Silver, Copper. 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
Baker and Sullivan Mine	Silver, Lead, Copper	Producer	Galena
Big Horn Calcium Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Blue Moon Mine	Tungsten, Copper, Gold, Silver	Past Producer
Coloma District	Barium-Barite, Gold, Copper, Silver, Lead, Antimony	Past Producer	1897
Dandy Mine	Gold, Silver, Uranium, Zinc	Occurrence
Fairview Mine	Gold, Silver, Copper, Molybdenum, Tellurium, Barium-Barite, Bismuth	Past Producer	Bismuth, Chalcopyrite, Molybdenite, Silver, Tetrahedrite
Fairview Mine	Gold, Silver, Bismuth	Unknown
First Chance (Garnet) District	Gold, Tungsten	Producer	SKARN
Garnet (First Chance)	Copper, Silver, Gold, Zinc, Lead	Past Producer	1867, 1955
Golden Angel Mine	Copper, Garnet, Gold, Iron	Occurrence

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Garnet	2.2 miles	19
Stump Town (historical)	2.4 miles	19
Springtown	3.2 miles	19
Top O'Deep	4.8 miles	19
Bearmouth	5.7 miles	20
Ozan	8.2 miles	19
Byrne	8.6 miles	20
Bradman	9.0 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 768617. 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.