Deerfield Colony, Montana

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Hanover census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59457. It stands on Alkali Creek. The Survey maps it on the Toney Bench quadrangle.

Deerfield Colony within Fergus County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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 Lewistown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Lewistown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1978 USGS Lewistown quadrangle1:100000
1978 USGS Toney Bench quadrangle1:24000

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Deerfield Colony: 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Gold. 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
	North Moccasin	Gold	Producer	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Limonite, Malachite, Pyrite, Smithsonite, Sphalerite
	North Moccasin Mt	Iron	Occurrence

Every working 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
Samples Crossing	2.5 miles	8
Danvers	3.2 miles	8
Ware	5.2 miles	8
Spring Creek Colony	7.9 miles	8
Amherst	8.1 miles	8
Hoosac	8.7 miles	8
Kingston	9.9 miles	8
Spring Creek Junction	10.7 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 770592. 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.

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.