Canyon Ferry, Montana

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.

• 1886 USGS Fort Logan quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
• 1948 USGS White Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:250000
• 1950 USGS Canyon Ferry quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS White Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1961 USGS White Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS White Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:250000
• 1972 USGS Canyon Ferry quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1975 USGS Canyon Ferry Dam quadrangle1:100000
• 2001 USGS Canyon Ferry quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 182 fires within 5 miles of Canyon Ferry between 1992 and 2020, burning about 47,813 acres in total. 53 started naturally. 4 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Cavetown
• Daytown (historical)
• York
• Lakeside

Every fire recorded in Lewis and Clark County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 39 workings within 5 miles of Canyon Ferry: 14 past producers, 7 occurrences, 7 unknowns, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Sapphire, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Lewis and Clark County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Canyon Ferry in 8 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 4 flash flood, 2 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 debris flow. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Lewis and Clark County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 806909. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.