Byrne, Montana

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Drummond census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59832. It stands on Tyler Creek. The Survey maps it on the Medicine Tree Hill quadrangle.

Byrne within Granite County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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.

1919 USGS Drummond quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1921 USGS Drummond quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1947 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1959 USGS Bearmouth quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1960 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Missoula East quadrangle1:100000
1989 USGS Medicine Tree Hill quadrangle1:24000
1996 USGS Medicine Tree Hill quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

98 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Byrne between 1992 and 2020, burning about 18,959 acres in total. 53 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	53
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24
Railroad operations and maintenance	8
Recreation and ceremony	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	1
Smoking	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
6 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Southwestern Land Office	GROUSE GULCH
5 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	11 acres	Southwestern Land Office	not named
22 September 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	GROUSE GULCH
19 September 2012	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Southwestern Land Office	NIMROD 2
14 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Southwestern Land Office	MILE MARKER 141
13 September 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	BATEMAN
1 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	WEST FORK TYLER #3
9 August 2012	Natural	7.0 acres	Southwestern Land Office	BATEMAN CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Granite County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Byrne: 3 unknowns, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Barium-Barite, Lead, Zinc. 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
Clark Fork of the Columbia River	Gold	Unknown
Hidden Tunnel Mine	Lead, Zinc	Unknown
Lucky Boy Prospect	Barium-Barite	Occurrence
Mitchell Copper Mine	Copper	Unknown
Mitchell Copper Prospect	Lead, Copper	Producer	Vein

Every working recorded in Granite 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
Nimrod	1.3 miles	20
Baird (historical)	3.5 miles	18
Ravenna	4.2 miles	18
Bearmouth	6.5 miles	20
Beartown	8.6 miles	19
Stump Town (historical)	10.3 miles	19
Garnet	10.3 miles	19
Ozan	11.1 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 780714. 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.