Box Springs, Montana

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Lewistown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59457. It stands on Hansen Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pike Creek quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Box Springs within Fergus County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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.

1941 USGS Lewistown quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1944 USGS Lewistown quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Lewistown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Lewistown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1978 USGS Lewistown quadrangle1:100000
1985 USGS Pike Creek quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Box Springs (historical) between 2017 and 2018, burning about 1 acre 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
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	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
12 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Northeastern Land Office	not named
5 May 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Northeastern Land Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fergus County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Box Springs (historical): 4 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Clay, Limestone, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Castle Butte	Limestone, Dimension	Occurrence
Kootenai Formation Clays	Clay	Occurrence
Unnamed Location	Clay	Occurrence
Shoemaker Mine	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Producer	1905, 1916
U.S. Gypsum Co. Mine	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Producer
United States Gypsum's Property	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer
Unnamed Location	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Occurrence

Every working 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
Heath	4.3 miles	12
Lewistown Junction	5.0 miles	13
Corbly (historical)	5.1 miles	13
Akerville (historical)	5.5 miles	13
Lewistown	5.9 miles	13
Roy-Winifred Junction	7.4 miles	13
Lewistown Heights	7.5 miles	13
Skaggs (historical)	7.6 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1722778. 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.