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Coburg, Montana

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Harlem census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59526. The Survey maps it on the Coburg quadrangle. It stands 2,307 feet above sea level.

Coburg within Blaine County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

33 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Coburg between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,445 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 2 were 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/undetermined8
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
4 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFort Belknap AgencyDUECES
4 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFort Belknap AgencyRT #7
1 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.3 acresFort Belknap AgencyRTE 6
5 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFort Belknap AgencyHAWKIE
5 August 2005Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresFort Belknap AgencySTRIKE
3 August 2009Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresFort Belknap AgencyCHEVY
25 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFort Belknap AgencySPEAKTHUNDER #3
23 August 2011Natural13 acresFort Belknap AgencyPOWER LINE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Blaine County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Coburg: 6 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Blaine County

Storms near this place

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coburg in 1 storm report in 2014: 1 tornado. 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
July 2014Tornado (EF0)Coburg-A very small and brief tornado was reported to have touched down 18 mi E of Fort Belknap.

Every storm recorded in Blaine 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
Savoy5.8 miles7
Dogtown (historical)9.7 miles7
Newtown16.9 miles7
Fort Belknap Agency17.4 miles7
Harlem19.1 miles11
North Harlem Colony19.2 miles11
Turner Colony21.2 miles7
Wing (historical)24.6 miles9

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.

Wikidata item Q110811137The 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 806930. 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.