Cyr, Montana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Alberton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59820. It stands on Moose Creek. The Survey maps it on the Stark South quadrangle.

Cyr within Mineral County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1956 USGS Wallace quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Tarkio quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1960 USGS Wallace quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Stark South quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1999 USGS Stark South quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

156 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 156 fires within 5 miles of Cyr between 1992 and 2020, burning about 15,529 acres in total. 62 started naturally. 2 were 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	62
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40
Debris and open burning	17
Recreation and ceremony	14
Railroad operations and maintenance	9
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Fireworks	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
6 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Southwestern Land Office	not named
29 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	NATURAL PIER BRIDGE
20 September 2018	Natural	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	SAWMILL 2
2 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	HAY CREEK
17 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	PLATEAU
14 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	MM 73
14 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	SOUTH FORK NEMOTE #2
13 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	SOUTH FORK NEMOTE #1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mineral County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cyr: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unnamed Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Mineral 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
Alberton	5.9 miles	8
Tarkio	8.2 miles	9
Quartz	10.2 miles	8
Lozeau	12.7 miles	8
Crescent City (historical)	12.9 miles	8
Westfall	13.2 miles	8
Riverbend	16.4 miles	8
Cedar Mouth (historical)	18.8 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1781671. 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.