BlockColony Bay, Montana
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Big Sandy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59460. The Survey maps it on the Day School quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Shelby quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Shelby quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Day School quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Lonesome Lake quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Colony Bay (historical) between 2012 and 2019, burning about 1,000 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 August 2012 | Natural | 1,000 acres | North Central Montana District | LABARE ROAD |
| 22 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Chouteau County | FDH-MTLG19-76 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pleasant Valley (historical) | 6.7 miles | 13 | |
| Loma | 8.7 miles | 14 | |
| Ophir (historical) | 10.0 miles | 14 | |
| Sunnybrook Colony | 10.8 miles | 6 | |
| Lippard | 12.9 miles | 14 | |
| Kenilworth | 13.5 miles | 10 | |
| Fort Benton | 14.9 miles | 14 | |
| Stranahan | 15.6 miles | 14 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1750108. 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.