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Cowboys Heaven, Montana

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Madison Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59729. It lies near Red Knob. The Survey maps it on the Cherry Lake quadrangle.

Cowboys Heaven within Madison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 28 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

14 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Cowboys Heaven between 1992 and 2019, burning about 349 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 1 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
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism1
Fireworks1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1

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
5 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestBARN CREEK
5 September 2002Debris and open burning148 acresBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestBEAR TRAP
2 September 1996Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestJORDAIN CREEK
27 August 1994Naturalunder an acreCuster Gallatin National Forestnot named
14 August 1994Natural4.0 acresCuster Gallatin National Forestnot named
10 August 2002Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestSHORT CREEK
8 July 1996Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestBT POWER LINE
28 July 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMadison CountyENNIS LAKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Cowboys Heaven: 4 prospects, 2 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Corundum, REE, Kyanite. 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
Beartrap Corumdum DepositCorundum, KyaniteOccurrenceMetamorphic
Unnamed Rare Earth DepositREEOccurrence
Unnamed SillimaniteFire Clay (Refractory)Unknown
Bear TrapCorundumProspect
Connie Mo MineMicaProspect
Mica OccurrenceMicaProspect
Moger Mica ClaimMicaProspect

Every working recorded in Madison 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
Watkins5.1 miles29
McAllister7.9 miles29
Norris8.5 miles20
Red Bluff8.6 miles20
Jeffers10.6 miles29
Sterling11.1 miles22
Ennis11.4 miles29
Beacon Point13.4 miles22

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 Q122547608The 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 806942. 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.