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Big Foot, Montana

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Whitehall census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59632. It stands on Shedhorn Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ratio Mountain quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Big Foot within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 28 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

29 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Big Foot (historical) between 1994 and 2020, burning about 4,417 acres in total. 18 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
Natural18
Recreation and ceremony7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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
8 September 2007Natural2.0 acresBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestELDER CREEK
5 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestSTATE CREEK
9 August 2005Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestLITTLE WHITETAIL
9 August 2000Natural9.0 acresBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestSTATE CK
29 August 2020Natural4,400 acresBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestSTATE CREEK
29 August 2012Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestBEAVER PLACE
22 August 1998Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestBEAVER CREEK
20 August 2020Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestPARK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 30 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of Big Foot (historical): 17 past producers, 7 occurrences, 6 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Lead, Uranium, Copper, Gold, Silver, Zinc. 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
Big Foot (State Creek) DistrictSilver, Lead, Zinc, Gold, CopperPast ProducerREPLACEMENT VEINS, PLACER
Boulder Mercury GroupLead, Mercury, Uranium, Silver, GoldOccurrenceVein
Last ChanceGold, Silver, CopperUnknown
Lost Cabin MineLead, Copper, Gold, SilverUnknown
Mountain Queen MineSilver, Lead, Gold, Copper, Zinc, UraniumPast Producer1939, 1956
Mountain Queen MineCopper, Uranium, Silver, LeadPast Producer
NickelodeonCopper, Gold, Molybdenum, Tungsten, UraniumOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Gold, Molybdenite, Powellite, Scheelite, Tenorite
North Whitetail Basin Granite QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
State MineGold, Silver, Copper, LeadPast ProducerReplacement Vein
State MineGold, Silver, Lead, CopperPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson 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
Valley (historical)7.2 miles28
Boulder7.9 miles28
Fuller9.9 miles30
Rieder10.3 miles29
Kyle11.1 miles29
Paul Place11.5 miles15
Basin11.8 miles28
Blazing Place11.8 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1762516. 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.