BlockCree Crossing, Montana
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1968. It stands in the Malta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59261. It lies near Alkali Coulee. The Survey maps it on the Hewitt Lake quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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.
- 1920 USGS Cowan quadrangle1:125000
- 1954 USGS Glasgow quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Glasgow quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Glasgow quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS Hewitt Lake quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
5 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Cree Crossing between 2008 and 2018, burning about 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Northeastern Land Office | not named |
| 11 August 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Bowdoin National Wildlife Refuge | BURGESS |
| 20 June 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Northeastern Land Office | not named |
| 18 June 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Northeastern Land Office | not named |
| 27 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Northeastern Land Office | not named |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cole | 2.7 miles | 8 | |
| Sleeping Buffalo | 3.9 miles | 10 | |
| Ashfield | 5.9 miles | 9 | |
| Tattnall | 6.1 miles | 7 | |
| Bone Crossing | 10.1 miles | 8 | |
| Saco | 11.0 miles | 9 | |
| Bowdoin | 11.2 miles | 10 | |
| Jordan Crossing | 12.5 miles | 8 |
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 Q122540833 | 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 770291. 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.