Box Elder, Montana

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Roy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59471. The Survey maps it on the Roy 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 Fergus County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

1954 USGS Lewistown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Lewistown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Roy quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Winnett quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Box Elder (historical) between 1998 and 2019, burning about 145 acres in total. 6 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	6

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
3 August 2019	Natural	140 acres	North Central Montana District	BEAR CREEK
24 July 1998	Natural	1.0 acres	North Central Montana District	N O #5
24 July 1998	Natural	1.0 acres	North Central Montana District	N O #4
24 July 1998	Natural	1.0 acres	North Central Montana District	N O #3
24 July 1998	Natural	1.0 acres	North Central Montana District	N O #2
28 June 2018	Natural	1.0 acres	Northeastern Land Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fergus 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
Roy	2.3 miles	8
Fergus	8.0 miles	8
Armells (historical)	14.2 miles	8
Fords Creek Colony	14.4 miles	8
Chippewa (historical)	17.1 miles	8
Rustle (historical)	18.4 miles	13
Canyon (historical)	19.1 miles	13
Ayers Ranch Colony	19.9 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1722777. 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.