Belle Creek, Montana

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the East Powder River census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59317. The Survey maps it on the Belle Creek North quadrangle. It stands 3,570 feet above sea level.

Belle Creek within Powder River County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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 Ekalaka quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Ekalaka quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Ekalaka quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Ekalaka quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Belle Creek North quadrangle1:24000
1980 USGS Broadus quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

10 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Belle Creek between 1995 and 2020, burning about 210 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
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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
5 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Miles City Field Office	LONESM PK
1 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Eastern Land Office	DUNCAN
9 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Miles City Field Office	WELL
22 August 1995	Natural	25 acres	Miles City Field Office	HORSE CK
17 August 2016	Natural	under an acre	Miles City Field Office	KELSEY
14 August 2016	Natural	92 acres	Miles City Field Office	GOTFREDSON ROAD
26 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Powder River County	BELLE - POWDER RIVER
22 April 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	49 acres	Miles City Field Office	SANDBURN

Every fire recorded in Powder River County

Storms near this place

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Belle Creek in 1 storm report in 2018: 1 flash flood. 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
July 2018	Flash Flood	Belle Creek	-	Private reservoirs and stock ponds filled and overflowed. There was widespread flooding on Thompson Creek. Rainfall was estimated to be 4 to 5 inches.

Every storm recorded in Powder River 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
Biddle	12.4 miles	8
Bay Horse	25.1 miles	8
Broadus	26.3 miles	8
Moores (historical)	27.3 miles	8
Olive	36.0 miles	7
Epsie	37.6 miles	8
Sixmile Crossing	38.3 miles	7
Moorhead	40.6 miles	8

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 Belle Creek	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4883621	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 802022. 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.

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.