BlockBlazing Place, Montana
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Boulder census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59632. It lies near Watertank Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Tacoma Park quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 19 printed sheetsMatched 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 Fort Logan quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1948 USGS White Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Devils Fence quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1958 USGS White Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS White Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS White Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:250000
- 1976 USGS Townsend quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Tacoma Park quadrangle1:24000
- 1996 USGS Tacoma Park quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
31 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Blazing Place between 1994 and 2020, burning about 28 acres in total. 21 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 | 21 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 August 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | 90 CENT |
| 7 August 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | 7-UP |
| 7 August 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Central Land Office | BOULDER POWERLINE |
| 6 August 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | DEADMAN |
| 6 August 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | BROWNS GULCH |
| 5 August 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | HUNTING GULCH |
| 30 August 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Central Land Office | RYAN MOUNTAIN |
| 24 August 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | RADARSBURG |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 47 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 47 workings within 5 miles of Blazing Place: 28 past producers, 9 occurrences, 7 prospects, 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arcturus Claim | Copper, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Gold | Occurrence | ||
| Blackbird Claim | Gold, Silver, Lead | Prospect | ||
| Boulder Iron Mine | Gold, Iron, Silver | Past Producer | 1900 | |
| Bulwer Mine | Copper, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Gold | Past Producer | 1914 | |
| C&D and Louise | Gold, Lead, Silver, Copper | Past Producer | 1875, 1880 | |
| Dunstone Mine | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | 1900, 1901 | |
| Elkhorn | Silver, Gold, Lead, Copper, Bismuth | Past Producer | 1875 | |
| Elkhorn (Swan) | Zinc, Lead, Copper, Silver, Gold | Unknown | 1980 | |
| Elkhorn Mine | Lead, Zinc, Silver, Copper, Gold, Bismuth | Past Producer | 1875 | |
| Elkhorn Queen | Silver, Zinc, Lead, Copper, Gold | Past Producer | 1880 |
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.
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 Q122540165 | 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 794190. 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.