BlockBull Mountain, Montana
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Huntley Project census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59064. It lies near Randalls Island. The Survey maps it on the Bull Mountain quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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 Forsyth quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Forsyth quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Forsyth quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Bull Mountain quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1979 USGS Hysham quadrangle1:100000
- 1983 USGS Forsyth quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
20 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Bull Mountain between 1997 and 2020, burning about 5,807 acres in total. 7 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/undetermined | 9 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 26 acres | Billings Field Office | WASON |
| 17 September 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,204 acres | Southern Land Office | T.K.FIRE |
| 7 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 acres | Yellowstone County | MM 26 I94 |
| 7 August 2016 | Natural | 50 acres | Southern Land Office | CABIN CREEK |
| 22 August 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Crow Agency | GRASS CREEK |
| 20 August 1999 | Natural | 3,900 acres | Southern Land Office | PINE RIDGE |
| 30 July 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Southern Land Office | S POMPEYS RD |
| 30 July 2017 | Natural | 495 acres | Billings Field Office | 7 MILE FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pompeys Pillar | 5.4 miles | 11 | |
| Waco | 8.7 miles | 9 | |
| Nibbe | 9.4 miles | 16 | |
| Anita | 10.3 miles | 16 | |
| Fee | 10.5 miles | 9 | |
| Newton | 11.1 miles | 16 | |
| Mann | 14.0 miles | 16 | |
| Ballantine | 16.1 miles | 16 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 769376. 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.