Calypso, Montana

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Terry North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59349. It stands on Camp Creek. The Survey maps it on the Calypso quadrangle.

Calypso within Prairie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1953 USGS Miles City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Miles City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Miles City quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Calypso quadrangle1:24000
1980 USGS Terry quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

11 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Calypso between 1995 and 2020, burning about 577 acres in total. 4 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
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Natural	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
14 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Prairie County	SAND CREEK - PRAIRIE
4 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	50 acres	Eastern Land Office	CONNS
4 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Eastern Land Office	TERRY
30 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Miles City Field Office	CALYPSO
9 July 1995	Natural	20 acres	Miles City Field Office	SCENIC
7 July 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Miles City Field Office	MILES
4 July 2015	Natural	14 acres	Miles City Field Office	CALYPSO
22 July 2014	Natural	1.0 acres	Miles City Field Office	CALYPSO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Prairie 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
Blatchford	4.6 miles	8
Terry	6.0 miles	8
Saugus	6.7 miles	8
Zero	8.0 miles	8
Benz	8.9 miles	8
McCloud	12.9 miles	8
Bluffport	13.9 miles	9
Sutherland (historical)	14.1 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 769512. 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.