Bill Bracket Place, Montana

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Martinsdale-Ringling census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59642. It lies near Woodchuck Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Rimrock Divide quadrangle.

Bill Bracket Place within Meagher County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 18 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.

1886 USGS Little Belt Mts. quadrangle1:250000
1894 USGS Little Belt Mts. quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1897 USGS Little Belt Mts. quadrangle1:250000
1898 USGS Little Belt Mts. quadrangle1:250000
1902 USGS Little Belt Mts. quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1948 USGS White Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:250000
1951 USGS Rimrock Divide quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1958 USGS White Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS White Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS White Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:250000
1993 USGS Ringling quadrangle1:100000
1995 USGS Rimrock Divide quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

18 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Bill Bracket Place between 1996 and 2012, burning about 13 acres in total. 16 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
Natural	16
Recreation and ceremony	2

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 1998	Natural	1.2 acres	Helena - Lewis and Clark National Forest	BOX CANYON
7 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	SCAB ROCK
7 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	BITTER CR.
4 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	STAG CREEK
4 September 2002	Natural	9.2 acres	Helena - Lewis and Clark National Forest	BOZEMAN FORK
19 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	SCAB
16 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Helena - Lewis and Clark National Forest	HEN PECKED
11 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Helena - Lewis and Clark National Forest	BALD RIDGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meagher 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
Staley Place	3.7 miles	17
Tyman Place	3.9 miles	17
Hamen	6.6 miles	19
Bruno	7.7 miles	19
Higgins	8.2 miles	19
Loweth	9.5 miles	19
Lennep	10.8 miles	17
Ford Place	11.3 miles	18

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 Q122572028

The 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 779907. 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.