Cameron Crossing, Montana

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1973. It stands in the Otter census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59351. It stands on Cameron Creek. The Survey maps it on the Foster Creek School quadrangle.

Cameron Crossing within Powder River County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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.

1954 USGS Ekalaka quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Ekalaka quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Ekalaka quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Ekalaka quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Foster Creek School quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Cameron Crossing between 1998 and 2018, burning about 92 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
Natural	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
28 August 1999	Natural	5.0 acres	Miles City Field Office	KOLKA
15 August 2006	Natural	61 acres	Miles City Field Office	ELK
11 July 2018	Natural	under an acre	Eastern Land Office	CAMERON
22 May 1998	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	KIWAH
20 March 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Eastern Land Office	FIRE 18 - CUSTER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Stacey

Every fire recorded in Powder River 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
Stacey	4.5 miles	9
Coalwood	12.7 miles	7
Epsie	20.8 miles	8
Olive	21.5 miles	7
Sonnette	24.1 miles	10
Willow Crossing	25.1 miles	9
Broadus	31.2 miles	8
Sixmile Crossing	33.8 miles	7

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 Q122559720

The 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 769524. 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.