Carroll, Montana

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Roy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59471. It stands on Carroll Coulee. The Survey maps it on the Hanson Flat quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Carroll within Fergus County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

1954 USGS Lewistown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Lewistown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1971 USGS Hanson Flat quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Zortman quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

25 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Carroll (historical) between 1992 and 2016, burning about 1,717 acres in total. 20 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	20
Recreation and ceremony	5

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
9 September 1998	Natural	19 acres	Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge	MISSOURI
9 September 1998	Natural	26 acres	Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge	SPOT
9 August 2008	Natural	1.5 acres	Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge	LOST DOG
9 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge	COLTIN
5 August 1997	Natural	10 acres	North Central Montana District	SAND CREEK
4 August 2009	Natural	3.6 acres	North Central Montana District	3 GUYS
27 August 1997	Natural	1.0 acres	Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge	SEVENMILE
26 August 2009	Natural	under an acre	North Central Montana District	211 FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fergus 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
Rocky Point (historical)	3.9 miles	8
Little Crooked (historical)	10.4 miles	10
Mobridge (historical)	16.6 miles	11
Valentine	18.3 miles	8
Box Elder (historical)	33.1 miles	8
Roy	35.3 miles	8
Fergus	40.4 miles	8
Fords Creek Colony	42.0 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1722810. 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.