Burnt Fork, Montana

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Stevensville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59870. It stands on Burnt Fork Bitterroot River. The Survey maps it on the Corley Gulch quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Burnt Fork within Ravalli County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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.

1909 USGS Sapphire quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1947 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1960 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Corley Gulch quadrangle1:24000
1993 USGS Philipsburg quadrangle1:100000
1998 USGS Corley Gulch quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

50 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Burnt Fork (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,079 acres in total. 35 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	35
Debris and open burning	6
Recreation and ceremony	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	1
Other causes	1
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
9 September 1999	Other causes	5.0 acres	Bitterroot National Forest	GLORY
6 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Bitterroot National Forest	CORLEY GULCH
6 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Bitterroot National Forest	LITTLE 3 MILE #2
2 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	SAWMILL SADDLE
14 September 2010	Natural	under an acre	Bitterroot National Forest	SPOONER FIRE
9 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	ALDER CREEK
8 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Bitterroot National Forest	TRAIL 313
7 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Bitterroot National Forest	LITTLE 3 MILE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Bitterroot Court

Every fire recorded in Ravalli County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Burnt Fork (historical): 10 occurrences, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Copper, Pumice, Iron. 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
Iron Cap	Silica, Iron	Occurrence	1952
Iron Cap Mine	Iron	Occurrence	Vein
Spooner Creek Ash	Pumice	Occurrence
Unnamed Location	Pumice	Occurrence
Claremont	Copper	Unknown
Claremont Mine	Copper	Occurrence	Unknown
New Discovery	Copper	Occurrence
Miller Mine	Barium-Barite	Unknown
Slocum Gulch Barite Deposit	Barium-Barite	Occurrence	Barite
Stevensville Barite Deposit	Barium-Barite	Occurrence	Vein

Every working recorded in Ravalli 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
Bitterroot Court	7.0 miles	14
Bing	7.6 miles	17
Etna (historical)	7.7 miles	17
Cinnabar Court	7.9 miles	17
Apple Blossom Court	8.2 miles	14
Mountain Shadows Estates	8.3 miles	17
Stevensville	8.7 miles	14
Bitter Root (historical)	9.5 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1803198. 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.