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Carpenter, Montana

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Three Forks census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59752. It lies near Cottonwood Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Logan quadrangle.

Carpenter within Gallatin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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

27 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Carpenter between 1996 and 2020, burning about 8,334 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/undetermined13
Debris and open burning7
Natural4
Railroad operations and maintenance3

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
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGallatin Countynot named
3 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFergus County201056
3 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Land Officenot named
28 September 2020Debris and open burning15 acresGallatin CountyCIRCLE S
11 September 2019Naturalunder an acreGallatin Countynot named
1 September 2018Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreCentral Land Officenot named
27 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGallatin Countynot named
19 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGallatin County202063

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gallatin County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Carpenter: 4 past producers, 3 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 prospect. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Pumice. 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
Kanta PitStone, Crushed/Broken, AluminumProducer
Logan-Madison River AshPumiceOccurrence
Silica QuarryStoneProducer
Three Forks PlacerGoldProspect
Trident Cement QuarryLimestone, General, ClayPlant
Unnamed Uranium DepositUraniumOccurrence
Kanta PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
Trident QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Gallatin 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
Logan2.0 miles21
Gallatin (historical)3.1 miles21
Lower Madison (historical)3.7 miles20
Trident3.9 miles21
Jefferson (historical)4.2 miles20
Three Forks4.7 miles20
Manhattan7.4 miles20
White9.3 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 769612. 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.