BlockBefore

Belgrade Junction, Montana

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Manhattan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59741. It stands on Godfrey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Manhattan quadrangle.

Belgrade Junction within Gallatin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

30 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Belgrade Junction between 2017 and 2020, burning about 21 acres in total. None 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/undetermined19
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresCentral Land OfficeMANHATTAN FIRE
6 September 2018Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresCentral Land Officenot named
5 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Land Officenot named
4 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGallatin Countynot named
21 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Land Officenot named
17 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCuster County201062
11 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePhillips County201059
7 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGallatin Countynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gallatin County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Belgrade Junction: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold. 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
Gardner Construction Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rader MineGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Gallatin 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
Nelsons Crossing (historical)1.6 miles20
Buell2.3 miles20
Churchill2.4 miles20
Amsterdam2.6 miles20
Holland3.1 miles21
White3.2 miles20
Westlake4.7 miles20
Belgrade5.5 miles22

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.

Wikidata item Q122559696The 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 768674. 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.