Bruce, Montana

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the North Garfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59077. The Survey maps it on the Twin Buttes quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Bruce within Garfield County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 7 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 Jordan quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Jordan quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Jordan quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Jordan quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Twin Buttes quadrangle1:24000
1993 USGS Sand Springs quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

7 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Bruce (historical) between 1999 and 2020, burning about 2,087 acres in total. 3 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	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
9 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	73 acres	Miles City Field Office	HAISLETT
6 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Eastern Land Office	BRUCE
3 August 2020	Natural	1.3 acres	Garfield County	STATE
28 August 2013	Natural	800 acres	Miles City Field Office	SAYLOR
24 August 2017	Natural	1,052 acres	Miles City Field Office	EDWARDS
7 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Eastern Land Office	STEVE FORK
31 October 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	160 acres	Miles City Field Office	SAYLOR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Garfield 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
Steve Forks	4.6 miles	7
Anad (historical)	4.7 miles	7
Edwards	8.7 miles	7
Sand Springs	10.9 miles	7
Tindall (historical)	12.4 miles	7
Braggville (historical)	13.5 miles	7
Blackfoot (historical)	13.9 miles	7
Benzien	14.0 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1716017. 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.