Cypress, Montana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Havre census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59501. It stands on Big Sandy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Herron Park quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Cypress within Hill County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1904 USGS Assinniboine quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1912 USGS Thibedeau Lake quadrangle1:125000
1953 USGS Havre quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Havre quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Havre quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Herron Park quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Havre quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

5 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Cypress (historical) between 2009 and 2020, burning about 27 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
4 July 2020	Fireworks	under an acre	Hill County	FDH-MTLG12-108
19 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Hill County	FDH-MTLG12-69
18 July 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	25 acres	Benton Lake Wetland Management District	SANDS WPA
8 April 2009	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Rocky Boy's Agency	G. FIRE
2 February 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Hill County	FDH-MTLG12-49

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hill 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
Beaver Creek	0.9 miles	11
Pacific Junction	2.2 miles	11
Herron	3.1 miles	11
West Havre	3.9 miles	11
Burnham	4.6 miles	10
Havre	6.3 miles	11
Saddle Butte	8.7 miles	11
Fresno	9.9 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1744195. 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.