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Dean, Montana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Absarokee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59028. It lies near Fishtail Butte. The Survey maps it on the Beehive quadrangle. It stands 5,244 feet above sea level.

Dean within Stillwater County

On record in Dean

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

Fires near this place

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Dean between 1996 and 2020, burning about 43 acres in total. 7 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
Natural7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 August 2020Naturalunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestLITTLE ROCK
6 August 2020Naturalunder an acreStillwater CountyBENBOW
31 August 2009Naturalunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestHEART LAKE
21 August 2010Smoking1.5 acresCuster Gallatin National ForestNYE ASSIST
17 August 2007Naturalunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestBENBOW
17 August 2007Naturalunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestBMCR
16 August 1996Naturalunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestFIDDLER CREEK
16 August 1996Naturalunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestEAST FIDDLER CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stillwater 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 Dean: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Fishtail Creek MineCopperPast Producer

Every working recorded in Stillwater County

Storms near this place

3 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dean in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2020: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2020HailDean-no account filed
July 2019HailDean-no account filed
July 2014Thunderstorm WindDean-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stillwater 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Beehive5.4 miles14
Nye6.6 miles17
Fishtail10.4 miles12
Mountain View11.1 miles17
Limestone12.3 miles17
Mouat (historical)12.6 miles17
Meyers Creek14.2 miles17
Absarokee15.4 miles14

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.

Wikipedia article on DeanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5245946The 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 782167. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.