Cooper, Montana

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1976. It stands in the Belt census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59405. The Survey maps it on the Northeast Great Falls quadrangle.

Cooper within Cascade County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 19 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.

1886 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1948 USGS Portage quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1949 USGS Portage quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Northeast Great Falls quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1976 USGS Great Falls North quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

10 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Cooper in 2017, burning about 42 acres in total. None 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	6
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Fireworks	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
9 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Central Land Office	BLACK EAGLE
1 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Central Land Office	MONARCH
8 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Central Land Office	SAND COULEE
25 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Central Land Office	BELT RURAL
25 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Central Land Office	BLACK EAGLE
1 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	12 acres	Central Land Office	SAND COULEE
3 July 2017	Fireworks	2.0 acres	Central Land Office	BLACK EAGLE
1 July 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Central Land Office	SAND COULEE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cascade 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 Cooper: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Kraus Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Montana Sand and Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Cascade 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
Rainbow	3.5 miles	19
Sheffels	5.1 miles	19
Box Elder (historical)	5.1 miles	15
Gerber	5.1 miles	16
Salem	5.2 miles	18
Boston Heights (historical)	6.1 miles	16
North Great Falls (historical)	6.6 miles	16
Gibson Flats	6.9 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 802079. 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.