BlockCrain Place, Montana
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Rosebud census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59327. The Survey maps it on the Crain Place quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 8 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 Forsyth quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Forsyth quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Forsyth quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Crain Place quadrangle1:24000
- 1979 USGS Forsyth quadrangle1:100000
- 1983 USGS Forsyth quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
16 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Crain Place between 1996 and 2017, burning about 43,642 acres in total. 13 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 | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 September 2000 | Natural | 375 acres | Miles City Field Office | WILD HORSE |
| 5 August 1996 | Natural | 30,700 acres | Miles City Field Office | ROSBUD CK |
| 24 August 2017 | Natural | 8,043 acres | Miles City Field Office | 1026 |
| 24 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 727 acres | Eastern Land Office | SWEENY |
| 13 August 2003 | Natural | 275 acres | Eastern Land Office | not named |
| 1 August 2012 | Natural | 1,362 acres | Miles City Field Office | BEAVER |
| 1 August 2012 | Natural | 24 acres | Miles City Field Office | MITCHELL |
| 5 July 2017 | Fireworks | 15 acres | Eastern Land Office | EAST |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Signal Butte (historical) | 6.6 miles | 6 | |
| Sabra (historical) | 7.6 miles | 8 | |
| Lee (historical) | 12.9 miles | 6 | |
| Brandenberg | 16.2 miles | 6 | |
| Thurlow | 16.8 miles | 9 | |
| Hathaway | 17.1 miles | 9 | |
| Rosebud | 17.4 miles | 8 | |
| Hopsonville (historical) | 17.5 miles | 6 |
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 Q122539915 | The 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 770271. 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.