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Clarkston, Montana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Three Forks census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59752. It lies near Home Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Lombard quadrangle.

Clarkston within Gallatin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

Fires near this place

20 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Clarkston between 1995 and 2020, burning about 10,648 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/undetermined13
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCarbon County201058
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGallatin Countynot named
3 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresCentral Land OfficeCLARKSTON
3 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGallatin Countynot named
18 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGallatin Countynot named
10 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,223 acresCentral Land OfficeHORSESHOE
1 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGallatin Countynot named
1 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use100 acresCentral Land OfficeTOSTON

Every fire recorded in Gallatin County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Clarkston: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Pumice. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Trident Brown ShaleStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Unnamed Pumicite DepositPumiceOccurrence

Every working recorded in Gallatin County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clarkston in 1 storm report in 2008: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2008HailClarkston-A severe thunderstorm dropped .75 inch diameter hail at Clarkson 50W.

Every storm recorded in Gallatin 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Trident6.6 miles21
Gallatin (historical)8.4 miles21
Carpenter9.9 miles21
Logan10.1 miles21
Deer Park10.3 miles15
Jefferson (historical)11.3 miles20
Three Forks12.0 miles20
Manhattan12.7 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 769908. 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.

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.