Darrel, Montana

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Grass Range census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59032. The Survey maps it on the Pike Creek Hills West quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Darrel within Fergus County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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.

1954 USGS Roundup quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Roundup quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Pike Creek Hills West quadrangle1:24000
1993 USGS Musselshell quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Darrel (historical) between 1999 and 2020, burning about 653 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
24 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	147 acres	Musselshell County	SHIPP ROAD
17 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Southern Land Office	not named
30 July 1999	Natural	500 acres	Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge	LAKEMASON
24 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	5.6 acres	Fergus County	FDH-MTLG08-148

Every fire recorded in Fergus 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
Warr (historical)	8.2 miles	6
Battrick (historical)	10.6 miles	6
Grass Range	19.6 miles	8
Becket	20.1 miles	6
Dryland (historical)	22.0 miles	8
Ayers Ranch Colony	24.3 miles	8
Forestgrove	25.7 miles	12
Chippewa (historical)	26.4 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1722874. 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.