BlockCat Creek, Montana
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Winnett North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59087. The Survey maps it on the Cat Creek quadrangle. It stands 2,907 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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
- 1986 USGS Cat Creek quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Winnett quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
8 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Cat Creek between 1996 and 2019, burning about 247 acres in total. 5 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 | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 August 1996 | Natural | 15 acres | North Central Montana District | BUTTONBTTE |
| 2 August 1996 | Natural | 1.5 acres | North Central Montana District | RURAL |
| 16 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Petroleum County | FDH-MTLG55-157 |
| 16 August 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 15 acres | Northeastern Land Office | not named |
| 14 August 1999 | Natural | 40 acres | North Central Montana District | NO 8 |
| 26 July 1999 | Natural | 160 acres | North Central Montana District | CAT CREEK |
| 2 June 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 acres | Northeastern Land Office | not named |
| 2 June 2017 | Natural | 3.0 acres | North Central Montana District | MANUEL |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cat Creek in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 2000: 1 flash flood, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jitney (historical) | 3.3 miles | 9 | |
| Shay (historical) | 8.0 miles | 8 | |
| Hoyle (historical) | 9.2 miles | 8 | |
| Weede (historical) | 11.0 miles | 9 | |
| Winnett | 18.8 miles | 8 | |
| Dovetail (historical) | 22.0 miles | 8 | |
| Kelley | 22.7 miles | 6 | |
| Flatwillow | 26.4 miles | 6 |
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 Cat Creek | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q58445316 | The 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 805516. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.