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Benteen, Montana

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Crow Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59031. It stands on Long Otter Creek. The Survey maps it on the Benteen quadrangle.

Benteen within Big Horn County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

198 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 198 fires within 5 miles of Benteen between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10,864 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 18 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined41
Debris and open burning32
Railroad operations and maintenance28
Equipment and vehicle use22
Natural20
Arson/incendiarism18
Fireworks14
Smoking9
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Firearms and explosives use2
Other causes1

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 2012Natural5.3 acresCrow AgencyOLD BULL
7 September 1996Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresCrow Agency3ENGINES
6 September 2013Natural10 acresCrow AgencySHAVINGS CREEK
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCrow AgencyROADSIDE 492
5 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreCrow AgencySEPTEMBER
3 September 2015Natural1.0 acresCrow AgencyNEST CREEK
3 September 1994Natural160 acresCrow Agencynot named
24 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use10 acresCrow AgencyROADSIDE 566

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Big Horn 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 Benteen: 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Lodge Grass Creek DepositGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrence

Every working recorded in Big Horn 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
Garryowen5.0 miles7
Lodge Grass10.0 miles13
Crow Agency10.6 miles7
Forty Mile Colony13.1 miles13
Dunmore16.4 miles12
Saint Xavier17.2 miles13
Spear17.7 miles12
Hardin22.2 miles12

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 Q122565542The 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 802027. 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.