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Bone Crossing, Montana

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Whitewater census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59261. The Survey maps it on the Double S Hill quadrangle.

Bone Crossing within Phillips County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

5 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Bone Crossing between 2002 and 2018, burning about 4 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
3 September 2002Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreBowdoin National Wildlife RefugeBEAVER CK
8 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNortheastern Land Officenot named
2 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNortheastern Land Officenot named
15 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNortheastern Land Officenot named
20 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNortheastern Land Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Phillips 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
Jordan Crossing2.4 miles8
Saco4.5 miles9
Cole7.5 miles8
Ashfield8.7 miles9
Cree Crossing10.1 miles7
Sleeping Buffalo10.9 miles10
Tattnall13.5 miles7
Valleytown13.6 miles6

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 Q122567736The 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 769096. 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.