BlockChalk Buttes, Montana
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Alzada-Boyes census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59324. The Survey maps it on the Chalk Buttes quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 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 Ekalaka quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Ekalaka quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Ekalaka quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Ekalaka quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Chalk Buttes quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Ekalaka quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Chalk Buttes quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
25 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Chalk Buttes (historical) between 1993 and 2017, burning about 294 acres in total. 25 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 | 25 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1998 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Miles City Field Office | WELL |
| 8 September 1998 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Miles City Field Office | MUD SPRG |
| 7 September 2005 | Natural | 11 acres | Miles City Field Office | MARSHALL |
| 9 August 2016 | Natural | 14 acres | Eastern Land Office | ROAD CREEK - POWDER RIVER |
| 8 August 2017 | Natural | 163 acres | Miles City Field Office | LONE TREE |
| 8 August 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Miles City Field Office | HOG |
| 21 August 2010 | Natural | 14 acres | Miles City Field Office | SCHULTZ |
| 2 August 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Custer Gallatin National Forest | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pershing (historical) | 12.2 miles | 8 | |
| Prairie Dale (historical) | 12.9 miles | 8 | |
| Beaver Flats (historical) | 12.9 miles | 9 | |
| Ridgeway | 17.2 miles | 8 | |
| Elgin (historical) | 18.0 miles | 10 | |
| Ekalaka | 18.7 miles | 9 | |
| Belltower | 19.4 miles | 8 | |
| Chausse (historical) | 27.7 miles | 8 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1688729. 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.