Castle Rock, Montana

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Rosebud census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59327. The Survey maps it on the Trail Creek School quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Castle Rock within Rosebud County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 6 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 Hardin quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Hardin quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Hardin quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Trail Creek School quadrangle1:24000
1980 USGS Lame Deer quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Castle Rock (historical) between 2000 and 2020, burning about 1,107 acres in total. 3 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	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
6 August 2020	Natural	540 acres	Rosebud County	EAST ARMELLS
2 August 2000	Natural	100 acres	Eastern Land Office	not named
16 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Eastern Land Office	HIDDEN VALLEY
16 July 2017	Natural	32 acres	Miles City Field Office	ROUGH
10 March 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	432 acres	Miles City Field Office	CHERRY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Ashland

Every fire recorded in Rosebud 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
Colstrip	9.5 miles	6
Hopsonville (historical)	11.3 miles	6
Saints Rest (historical)	13.6 miles	7
Jimtown	14.9 miles	7
Lame Deer	18.9 miles	8
Lee (historical)	21.9 miles	6
Wood Place	22.7 miles	8
Sabra (historical)	24.5 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1923243. 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.