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Cabin City, Montana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the West End census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59866. It stands on East Fork Twelvemile Creek. The Survey maps it on the De Borgia South quadrangle.

Cabin City within Mineral County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

103 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Cabin City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 105 acres in total. 78 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
Natural78
Recreation and ceremony6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
4 September 2007Naturalunder an acreLolo National ForestTAMARACK
3 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLolo National ForestWEST TWIN CREEK
3 September 1994Naturalunder an acreLolo National Forestnot named
27 September 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLolo National ForestFLAT ROCK TRAIL
18 September 1994Naturalunder an acreLolo National Forestnot named
18 September 1994Naturalunder an acreLolo National Forestnot named
17 September 2006Naturalunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestCOPPER GREY WFU
13 September 2003Naturalunder an acreLolo National ForestDEBORGIA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mineral 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 Cabin City: 7 occurrences, 2 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Lead, Silver, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Monarch MineSilver, Copper, GoldOccurrence
True FissureSilver, LeadProspect
True Fissure MineLead, Silver, CopperOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Galena
Unnamed Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Fox Copper MineLead, SilverOccurrenceVein
Deer Creek PlacerGoldPast ProducerPlacer
Gold Chrome Mining Co. ProspectGoldOccurrenceVein
JackGoldOccurrence
JackGoldUnknown
Ward Creek PlacerGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Mineral 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
Henderson2.5 miles11
Drexel2.8 miles11
De Borgia4.4 miles11
Foraker5.8 miles12
Haugan7.3 miles11
Buford (historical)8.0 miles12
Saint Regis9.7 miles12
Toole13.1 miles12

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.

Wikidata item Q122545004The 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 780721. 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.