Becket, Montana

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Grass Range census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59441. It stands on Athern Creek. The Survey maps it on the Becket quadrangle.

Becket within Fergus County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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 Roundup quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Roundup quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Becket quadrangle1:24000
1993 USGS Musselshell quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

7 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Becket between 1994 and 2020, burning about 227 acres in total. 6 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	6
Debris and open burning	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
14 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	North Central Montana District	BECKET
1 September 1996	Natural	80 acres	North Central Montana District	FINKBEINER
6 August 2010	Natural	45 acres	North Central Montana District	PIERCE
6 July 2016	Natural	1.4 acres	North Central Montana District	PIERCE
16 July 2005	Natural	under an acre	North Central Montana District	MCDONALD
2 June 2017	Natural	under an acre	North Central Montana District	TYLER CUTOFF
1 February 2020	Debris and open burning	100 acres	Fergus County	MUNGER LANE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fergus County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Becket: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone. 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
	Surprise Stone Quarry	Stone	Producer

Every working recorded in Fergus County

Storms near this place

3 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Becket in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2021: 2 heavy rain, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Becket	-	Awos station KMVH N Bar Ranch. Time estimated based on radar.
August 2014	Heavy Rain	Becket	-	Heavy rain, measuring 5.00 inches, was reported.
August 2014	Heavy Rain	Becket	-	Heavy rain, measuring 8.22 inches storm total, was reported. Lowland flooding was seen.

Every storm recorded in Fergus 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
Dryland (historical)	1.9 miles	8
Ayers Ranch Colony	4.3 miles	8
Grass Range	6.7 miles	8
Chippewa (historical)	6.9 miles	8
Novary (historical)	7.8 miles	13
Forestgrove	8.3 miles	12
Fords Creek Colony	9.5 miles	8
Battrick (historical)	11.6 miles	6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 802018. 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.