Belmont, Montana

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Lincoln census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59602. The Survey maps it on the Greenhorn Mountain quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Belmont within Lewis and Clark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 23 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.

1889 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1893 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1899 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1903 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1947 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1959 USGS Elliston quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1960 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Elliston quadrangle1:100000
1989 USGS Greenhorn Mountain quadrangle1:24000
2001 USGS Greenhorn Mountain quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

76 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Belmont (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 284 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 2 were 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
Recreation and ceremony	25
Railroad operations and maintenance	17
Natural	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Debris and open burning	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
Other causes	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Firearms and explosives use	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
7 September 2003	Railroad operations and maintenance	45 acres	Central Land Office	not named
3 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	2.3 acres	Central Land Office	AUSTIN RD
27 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Southwestern Land Office	BLOSSBURG
25 September 2017	Other causes	under an acre	Blackfeet Agency	BULLS EYE
24 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Helena - Lewis and Clark National Forest	PRIEST PASS
24 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Helena - Lewis and Clark National Forest	AUSTON CREEK/
22 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Helena - Lewis and Clark National Forest	PRIEST PASS 3
22 September 2001	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Central Land Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis and Clark County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 44 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 44 workings within 5 miles of Belmont (historical): 27 past producers, 8 occurrences, 8 unknowns, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Iron, Brick Clay, Silver. 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
Austin District	Gold, Copper, Silver, Lead, Iron, Arsenic, Antimony	Past Producer	1880
Bald Butte Mine	Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Fluorine-Fluorite, Molybdenum	Past Producer	Polymetallic veins
Baldy Smith Mine	Silver, Lead, Gold, Arsenic	Occurrence	Corkite, Gold
Baldy Smith Mine	Iron, Arsenic, Lead, Manganese	Past Producer
Blue Bell Mine	Copper, Silver, Gold, Molybdenum	Past Producer	Gold, Malachite, Molybdenite
Blue Jay Mine	Lead, Copper, Silver, Iron, Antimony	Past Producer	1900
Blue Jay Mine	Iron, Silver, Copper, Lead	Past Producer
Bluebell Mine	Gold, Copper, Molybdenum	Past Producer
Boeing Fluorite	Fluorine-Fluorite, Gold	Past Producer
Boeing Prospect	Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Copper, Gold, Silver	Past Producer	Fluorite, Lead

Every working recorded in Lewis and Clark 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
Skyline	1.8 miles	23
Weed	3.3 miles	23
Austin	4.1 miles	26
Ferris (historical)	4.4 miles	24
Bald Butte	4.6 miles	23
Forest Heights	5.9 miles	24
Marysville	6.1 miles	21
Frontier Town	6.4 miles	24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1789294. 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.