BlockBeehive, Montana
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Absarokee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59061. It stands on Bad Canyon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Beehive quadrangle. It stands 4,629 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1898 USGS Granite Mountain District quadrangle1:125000
- 1932 USGS Nye No 1 quadrangle1:48000
- 1954 USGS Billings quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Beehive quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Billings quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Billings quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Red Lodge quadrangle1:100000
- 1996 USGS Beehive quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
5 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Beehive between 1996 and 2018, burning about 134 acres in total. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 August 2010 | Smoking | 1.5 acres | Custer Gallatin National Forest | NYE ASSIST |
| 2 August 1996 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Miles City Field Office | BAD CANYON |
| 25 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southern Land Office | 20 SPREADING WINGE LN |
| 15 December 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southern Land Office | 4 RIDDLES CLIFF RD |
| 21 October 2017 | Natural | 131 acres | Billings Field Office | BAD CANYON |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dean | 5.4 miles | 14 | |
| Nye | 5.6 miles | 17 | |
| Limestone | 9.6 miles | 17 | |
| Meyers Creek | 11.2 miles | 17 | |
| Mountain View | 11.3 miles | 17 | |
| Fishtail | 11.6 miles | 12 | |
| Mouat (historical) | 13.7 miles | 17 | |
| Absarokee | 15.0 miles | 14 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Beehive | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4879787 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 802020. 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.