Cheadle, Montana

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Lewistown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59457. It stands on Parr Creek. The Survey maps it on the Horsethief Coulee West quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Cheadle within Fergus 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.

1941 USGS Judith Peak quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1944 USGS Judith Peak quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Lewistown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Lewistown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1978 USGS Lewistown quadrangle1:100000
1985 USGS Horsethief Coulee West quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

9 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Cheadle (historical) between 1992 and 2018, burning about 524 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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
28 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	300 acres	Northeastern Land Office	not named
19 August 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Northeastern Land Office	REDDING RANCH
18 August 2013	Natural	1.3 acres	North Central Montana District	CHEADLE
17 August 1996	Natural	200 acres	North Central Montana District	FA 7
26 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Northeastern Land Office	not named
21 July 2017	Natural	2.0 acres	Fergus County	TUSS
19 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.1 acres	Fergus County	HORSETHIEF
5 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Northeastern Land Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fergus 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 Cheadle (historical): 1 prospect. 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
	Ruby Gulch	Gold	Prospect

Every working recorded in Fergus 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
Skaggs (historical)	3.6 miles	13
Giltedge	5.3 miles	13
Nelson (historical)	5.5 miles	13
Piper	5.5 miles	11
Novary (historical)	6.1 miles	13
Forestgrove	6.1 miles	12
Heath	7.6 miles	12
Ruby Gulch (historical)	8.4 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1722807. 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.