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Carney, Montana

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the South of the Yellowstone census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59011. It stands on Fryer Creek. The Survey maps it on the Carney quadrangle. It stands 4,153 feet above sea level.

Carney within Sweet Grass County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

14 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Carney between 2016 and 2020, burning about 204 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use1
Fireworks1

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
9 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouthern Land OfficeMM358
6 September 2018Naturalunder an acreSouthern Land OfficeFALCON
6 September 2018Natural5.0 acresSouthern Land OfficeEAGLE
22 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSweet Grass CountyI90 MM 361
10 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSweet Grass CountyMM 359 I-90
4 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined13 acresSweet Grass County51 DUCK CREEK RD.
15 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthern Land OfficeMENDENHALL RD
4 July 2017Fireworksunder an acreSouthern Land OfficeTREE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sweet Grass County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Carney: 4 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Calcium. 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
Curry Calcite DepositCalciumOccurrence
Smith HomesteadCalciumUnknown
Unnamed Calcite DepositCalciumOccurrence
Unnamed Calcite DepositCalciumOccurrence
Unnamed Calcite DepositCalciumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Sweet Grass 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
McLeod7.1 miles19
Sioux Crossing9.7 miles17
Big Timber10.1 miles16
Wormser (historical)16.0 miles18
Greycliff18.0 miles16
Sourdough18.9 miles15
Quebec24.8 miles16
Norwegian Settlement (historical)24.9 miles11

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.

Wikipedia article on CarneyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5044026The 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 806913. 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.