BlockBurnham, Montana
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Gildford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59501. The Survey maps it on the Fresno Dam quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 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.
- 1904 USGS Assinniboine quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1912 USGS Thibedeau Lake quadrangle1:125000
- 1953 USGS Havre quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Havre quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Havre quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Fresno Dam quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Havre quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
3 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Burnham between 2009 and 2020, burning about 3 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Hill County | FDH-MTLG12-69 |
| 8 April 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Rocky Boy's Agency | G. FIRE |
| 20 April 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Hill County | FDH-MTLG12-40 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burnham in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2022: 2 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2022 | Hail | Burnham | - | Trained spotter reported hail up to tennis ball sized (2.5 inches) 8 miles W of Havre. Time estimated by radar. |
| July 2015 | Hail | Burnham | - | Thunderstorm Produced an estimated 50 mph wind gust and penny size hail on the north end of Fresno Reservoir. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cypress (historical) | 4.6 miles | 11 | |
| Beaver Creek | 5.0 miles | 11 | |
| Fresno | 5.3 miles | 10 | |
| Herron | 6.2 miles | 11 | |
| Pacific Junction | 6.7 miles | 11 | |
| West Havre | 8.2 miles | 11 | |
| Laredo | 8.9 miles | 10 | |
| Kremlin | 10.6 miles | 10 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 769412. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.