Chance, Montana

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Red Lodge census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59008. It lies near Sand Coulee. The Survey maps it on the Hollenbeck Draw quadrangle.

Chance within Carbon 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.

1944 USGS Red Lodge quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Billings quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Billings quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Billings quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1969 USGS Hollenbeck Draw quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1989 USGS Red Lodge quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

11 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Chance between 2007 and 2020, burning about 44 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	1
Fireworks	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Firearms and explosives 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
7 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Southern Land Office	STRAW FIRE
22 August 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Billings Field Office	JACKSON LANE
9 July 2014	Natural	under an acre	Cody Field Office	HIGHLAND ASSIST
25 July 2020	Firearms and explosives use	12 acres	Billings Field Office	HOLLENBECK DRAW
19 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18 acres	Billings Field Office	IRON FIRE
25 June 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Billings Field Office	HOLLENBECK DRAW
22 June 2018	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Southern Land Office	HOLLANDBECK RD
10 June 2018	Fireworks	1.0 acres	Southern Land Office	FIRECRACKER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Chance: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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
	Clarks Fork Placer	Gold	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Carbon 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
Eagle (historical)	9.5 miles	15
Belfry	9.5 miles	12
Bearcreek	11.4 miles	15
Caledonia (historical)	13.2 miles	15
Scotch Coulee (historical)	13.2 miles	15
Washoe	13.2 miles	15
Golden (historical)	15.2 miles	10
Red Lodge	15.4 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 769749. 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.