Cascade Colony, Montana

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Sun River Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59421. The Survey maps it on the Cascade Colony quadrangle.

Cascade Colony within Cascade County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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.

1886 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Simms quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1976 USGS Great Falls South quadrangle1:100000
1983 USGS Cascade Colony quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

5 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Cascade Colony between 1994 and 2017, burning about 1,400 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined	4
Natural	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
3 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Central Land Office	FORT SHAW
19 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Central Land Office	SUN RIVER
11 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Central Land Office	FORT SHAW
10 August 2006	Natural	1,000 acres	Central Land Office	SQUARE BUTTE
22 March 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	400 acres	Central Land Office	GONDEIRO RANCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Fort Shaw

Every fire recorded in Cascade County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Cascade Colony: 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Titanium, REE, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Savoy Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Titanium Occurrence	Iron, Titanium, REE	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Cascade 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
Fort Shaw	4.6 miles	15
Simms	6.7 miles	13
Ashuelot	8.1 miles	15
Sun River	8.3 miles	13
Olson Place	10.3 miles	10
Fair Haven Colony	10.5 miles	16
Saint Peter	10.8 miles	13
Lowry	11.2 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 805907. 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.