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Butte-Silver Bow (balance), Montana

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Butte census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59750. It lies near Feeley Hill. The Survey maps it on the Buxton quadrangle. It stands 5,817 feet above sea level.

Butte-Silver Bow (balance) within Silver Bow County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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.

Fires near this place

16 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Butte-Silver Bow (balance) between 1996 and 2019, burning about 320 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
Natural7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
23 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestSOUTH FORK DIVIDE CREEK
9 August 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestSOUTH FORK RESEVOIR
3 August 2003Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestWELL HIDDEN
28 August 1996Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestCLIMAX
19 August 2007Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestLITTLE BEEF TRAIL
12 August 2000Natural5.0 acresBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestCURLY
5 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestSOUP CAN
3 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined70 acresBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestBUXTON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Silver Bow County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Butte-Silver Bow (balance): 4 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: REE, Gold, Silver, Gold, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gold Chief LodeCopperProspect1936
ClimaxSilver, GoldOccurrence
Climax Apex Lode GroupGold, SilverPast ProducerCerargyrite, Gold, Pyrargyrite, Silver, Stephanite
Climax Apex Lode GroupGold, SilverPast Producer
Lame Rabbit LodeGold, SilverOccurrence1931
Price PlacerREEUnknown
Unnamed Rae OccREEOccurrence
Unnamed Rare EarthsREEOccurrence

Every working recorded in Silver Bow 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Feely2.4 miles16
Buxton4.1 miles16
Sciuchetti Place6.8 miles14
Woodin6.8 miles16
Silver Bow7.0 miles23
Nissler7.1 miles23
Ramsay7.3 miles23
Newcomb7.4 miles17

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Butte-Silver Bow (balance)An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q49347613The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2409652. 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.