Bend, Montana

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Plains census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59873. It stands on Indian Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bend quadrangle.

Bend within Sanders County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

1937 USGS Thompson Falls quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Wallace quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Wallace quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Bend quadrangle1:24000
1992 USGS Thompson Falls quadrangle1:100000
1999 USGS Bend quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

83 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Bend between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,300 acres in total. 52 started naturally. 1 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	52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Arson/incendiarism	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
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
8 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9.5 acres	Northwestern Land Office	TWIN LAKES
30 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	BORDER PEAK
22 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	not named
2 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	not named
15 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	not named
15 September 2003	Natural	7.0 acres	Northwestern Land Office	not named
7 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	BIG ROCK S
6 August 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northwestern Land Office	TWIN LAKES # 2

Every fire recorded in Sanders 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 Bend: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Barium-Barite. 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
	Kennelty Mine	Barium-Barite	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Sanders 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
Snider	22.9 miles	10
Talc	24.3 miles	13
Eddy	24.6 miles	10
Childs	24.9 miles	9
Ashleys Settlement (historical)	25.2 miles	10
Belknap	25.6 miles	13
White Pine	25.6 miles	13
Shannonville (historical)	26.0 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 801980. 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.