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Big Sky Mountain Village, Montana

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Madison Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59716. The Survey maps it on the Lone Mountain quadrangle.

Big Sky Mountain Village within Madison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 22 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

27 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Big Sky Mountain Village between 1993 and 2020, burning about 25 acres in total. 11 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
Natural11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony3
Fireworks1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestLOW DOG
29 September 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresCuster Gallatin National ForestSPANISH PEAKS
15 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestLONE PEAK
12 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestSHACK
10 September 2005Naturalunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestYELLOW MOUNTAIN
7 August 2016Naturalunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestPANCAKE
5 August 2006Naturalunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestSHEDHORN
24 August 2016Smokingunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestDIAMOND HITCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Big Sky Mountain Village: 3 prospects, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Gold, Silver, Iron, Mica. 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
Beehive BasinMicaUnknown
Last Chance ProspectCopper, Gold, SilverOccurrence
Last Chance ProspectIronProspect
Gallatin River PlacersGoldProspect
Ridge ProspectGoldProspect

Every working recorded in Madison 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
Beacon Point7.2 miles22
Cameron16.0 miles21
Cowboys Heaven16.1 miles28
Watkins16.5 miles29
Jeffers16.8 miles29
Ennis18.0 miles29
Varney19.6 miles20
McAllister20.7 miles29

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 Q122561496The 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 801845. 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.