Blair, Montana

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Fort Peck Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59218. It stands on Big Muddy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fort Kipp quadrangle.

Blair within Roosevelt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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.

1948 USGS Fort Kipp quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS Fort Kipp quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Wolf Point quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Wolf Point quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Culbertson quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

72 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Blair between 1992 and 2020, burning about 625 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 4 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
Debris and open burning	26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Natural	7
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Fireworks	2
Smoking	2
Other causes	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

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
6 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fort Peck Agency	S.FT.KIPP
29 September 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	22 acres	Fort Peck Agency	BLAIR
27 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fort Peck Agency	T.GOURNEAU
25 September 1993	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Fort Peck Agency	HOLLOW
21 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Roosevelt County	FDH-MTLG17-325
19 September 1993	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Fort Peck Agency	CULBERTSON
16 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Fort Peck Agency	DUSTY MENZ
14 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Fort Peck Agency	PERRY'S

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Roosevelt 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 Blair: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
	Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Roosevelt 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
Boyd (historical)	4.7 miles	7
Fort Kipp	4.8 miles	7
Culbertson	5.8 miles	6
Calais	10.1 miles	9
Slab Crossing	10.5 miles	8
Lanark	14.2 miles	5
Froid	14.7 miles	5
McCabe	14.8 miles	5

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 769015. 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.