Cole, Montana

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Whitewater census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59261. The Survey maps it on the Cole quadrangle.

Cole within Phillips County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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.

1905 USGS Saco quadrangle1:62500
1905 USGS Saco Special quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Glasgow quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Glasgow quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Glasgow quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Cole quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Cole between 2002 and 2018, burning about 4 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	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Natural	1
Debris and open burning	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
3 September 2002	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Bowdoin National Wildlife Refuge	BEAVER CK
26 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Northeastern Land Office	not named
11 August 2008	Natural	under an acre	Bowdoin National Wildlife Refuge	BURGESS
20 June 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Northeastern Land Office	not named
18 June 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Northeastern Land Office	not named
27 April 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Northeastern Land Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Phillips 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
Cree Crossing	2.7 miles	7
Sleeping Buffalo	5.1 miles	10
Ashfield	5.5 miles	9
Tattnall	7.1 miles	7
Bone Crossing	7.5 miles	8
Saco	8.8 miles	9
Jordan Crossing	9.9 miles	8
Bowdoin	12.6 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 806932. 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.