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Corbin, Montana

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Boulder census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59638. It stands on Comet Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jefferson City quadrangle. It stands 4,775 feet above sea level.

Corbin within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 29 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

81 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Corbin between 1994 and 2020, burning about 12,564 acres in total. 46 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
Natural46
Debris and open burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Firearms and explosives use1

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
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Land OfficeNORTH MAIN
6 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Land Officenot named
5 September 2001Naturalunder an acreButte Field OfficeCORBIN
4 September 2007Natural14 acresCentral Land Officenot named
4 September 2007Naturalunder an acreCentral Land Officenot named
4 September 2000Naturalunder an acreButte Field OfficeSTAGECOACH
27 September 2020Firearms and explosives useunder an acreCentral Land OfficeKADY
26 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCentral Land OfficeCLANCY CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 151 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 151 workings within 5 miles of Corbin: 65 past producers, 30 prospects, 26 occurrences, 16 unknowns. 14 still produce. What was taken out: Silver, Gold, Lead, Copper. 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
Alahambra DistrictGold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Manganese, Zinc, Silica, Uranium, Arsenic, MolybdenumPast Producer1921, 1957
Alice MineSilver, Copper, LeadUnknown
Alta MineSilver, Zinc, Lead, Copper, Silica, Gold, AntimonyPast Producer1869
Banner MineGold, Lead, SilverProducerUnknown
Beaverton RanchCopper, UraniumOccurrence
BerthaSilver, Lead, Copper, Gold, ZincPast Producer
Bertha MineCopper, Silver, Lead, Gold, Zinc, Bismuth, AntimonyPast Producer1917
Big ChiefLead, Zinc, Silver, GoldPast Producer
Big Chief Mine GolcondaLead, Zinc, Copper, Silver, Gold, AntimonyPast Producer1958
Black Jack MineZinc, Gold, Lead, SilverProducerUnknown

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Corbin in 1 storm report in 2019: 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
August 2019HailCorbin-A member of the public reported hail estimated to be the size of quarters (1 inch Diameter) near Park Lane. hail was covering the ground.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Jefferson City1.9 miles29
Wickes3.1 miles29
Portal4.2 miles29
Glenbeg (historical)4.6 miles30
Amazon4.8 miles29
Alhambra6.3 miles19
New Haven (historical)6.9 miles19
Lewiston (historical)7.0 miles19

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.

Wikipedia article on CorbinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16951595The 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 781665. 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.