Box Elder, Montana

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1976. It stands in the Belt census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59405. The Survey maps it on the Fife quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Box Elder within Cascade County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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 Great Falls quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1955 USGS Stockett quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1957 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Fife quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1976 USGS Great Falls South quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

3 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Box Elder (historical) between 2017 and 2019, burning about 16 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
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
8 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Central Land Office	SAND COULEE
25 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Central Land Office	BELT RURAL
13 July 2019	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Cascade County	FIFE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cascade 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
Fife	3.5 miles	15
Gerber	4.0 miles	16
Tracy	4.6 miles	16
Number Seven	5.0 miles	16
Cooper	5.1 miles	19
Centerville	5.5 miles	16
Sand Coulee	5.8 miles	16
Salem	6.0 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1762402. 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.