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Bitterroot Court, Montana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Stevensville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59870. It stands on Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Stevensville quadrangle.

Bitterroot Court within Ravalli County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

38 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Bitterroot Court between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,212 acres in total. 7 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
Debris and open burning20
Natural7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism1
Fireworks1

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
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRavaIIi County203 CACTUS TRL
25 September 2003Debris and open burning70 acresSouthwestern Land Officenot named
2 September 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouthwestern Land Officenot named
8 August 2005Naturalunder an acreBitterroot National ForestBROOKS CREEK
29 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined500 acresSouthwestern Land OfficeHIDDEN VALLEY
2 August 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreBitterroot National Forestnot named
18 August 2013Natural1.0 acresBitterroot National ForestKOOTENAI
1 August 2000Naturalunder an acreBitterroot National ForestWHITE STALLIION

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ravalli County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Bitterroot Court: 5 occurrences, 4 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Pumice, Titanium, Garnet, Titanium, Metal, Thorium, Zirconium, Iron, Zirconium, Iron, Thorium. 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
Main River ValleyIron, Titanium, Zirconium, ThoriumUnknown
Mccalla Creek Placer AreaGarnet, Titanium, Metal, Thorium, Zirconium, IronOccurrenceGarnet, Ilmenite, Magnetite, Monazite, Zircon
Sharrot CreekTitanium, ThoriumUnknown
Silverthorn CreekTitanium, Zirconium, Iron, ThoriumUnknown
Ambrose Creek Pumice DepositPumiceOccurrencePumice
Bitteroot ValleyPumiceUnknown
Unnamed LocationPumiceOccurrence
Unnamed LocationPumiceOccurrence
Willoughby Creek AshPumiceOccurrence

Every working recorded in Ravalli 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
Apple Blossom Court2.1 miles14
Stevensville2.3 miles14
Mountain Shadows Estates2.6 miles17
Cinnabar Court3.1 miles17
Bitter Root (historical)3.8 miles14
Bing5.4 miles17
Kenspur5.7 miles14
Etna (historical)5.9 miles17

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 Q122557298The 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 1802985. 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.