Calais, Montana

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Fort Peck Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59213. The Survey maps it on the Calais quadrangle.

Calais within Roosevelt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1914 USGS Brockton quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1950 USGS Calais quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Wolf Point quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Wolf Point quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Culbertson quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

145 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 145 fires within 5 miles of Calais between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,673 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 18 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
Debris and open burning	24
Arson/incendiarism	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Misuse of fire by a minor	18
Railroad operations and maintenance	17
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Natural	10
Smoking	10
Fireworks	7
Recreation and ceremony	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Other causes	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 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fort Peck Agency	S.FT.KIPP
30 September 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.2 acres	Fort Peck Agency	CIRCLE DR
3 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9.0 acres	Northeastern Land Office	not named
3 September 2017	Railroad operations and maintenance	36 acres	Fort Peck Agency	WHEAT
29 September 1994	Railroad operations and maintenance	23 acres	Fort Peck Agency	BENDER
25 September 2014	Power generation/transmission/distribution	6.5 acres	Fort Peck Agency	POLES LINES
25 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fort Peck Agency	MISSOURI
25 September 1993	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Fort Peck Agency	HOLLOW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Roosevelt 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 Calais: 7 unknowns, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Bentonite. 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
Unnamed Bentonite	Bentonite	Occurrence
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Roosevelt 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
Fort Kipp	5.3 miles	7
Brockton	5.4 miles	9
Boyd (historical)	9.0 miles	7
Blair	10.1 miles	7
Slab Crossing	11.5 miles	8
Sprole	13.4 miles	6
Deertail Indian Village (historical)	13.9 miles	6
Anderson	15.0 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 806904. 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.