Dennison, Montana

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Wolf Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59648. It lies near Log Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Beartooth Mountain quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Dennison within Lewis and Clark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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.

1886 USGS Fort Logan quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1948 USGS White Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS White Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS White Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Beartooth Mountain quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1965 USGS White Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Canyon Ferry Dam quadrangle1:100000
2001 USGS Beartooth Mountain quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

77 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Dennison (historical) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 6,990 acres in total. 44 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
Natural	44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Recreation and ceremony	6
Debris and open burning	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4,409 acres	Central Land Office	INDIAN TRAIL
5 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Central Land Office	ELKHORN CREEK
18 September 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Helena - Lewis and Clark National Forest	not named
16 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Helena - Lewis and Clark National Forest	not named
13 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Central Land Office	LOG GULCH #2
12 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Central Land Office	LOG GULCH #1
12 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Central Land Office	HOLTER #1
9 August 2019	Natural	under an acre	Central Land Office	WILLOW CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Craig

Every fire recorded in Lewis and Clark County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Dennison (historical): 2 prospects, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Prospected Shear Zones-Name Unknown	Gold, Silver	Prospect
Elevated Placer Bars-Name Unknown	Gold	Prospect
Mings Bar	Gold	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Lewis and Clark 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
Wolf Creek	7.3 miles	11
Craig	7.7 miles	13
Sieben	10.8 miles	20
Old Weiss and French Place	10.9 miles	16
Nelson	12.4 miles	16
Dearborn (historical)	18.0 miles	11
Silver City	18.8 miles	20
York	19.5 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1789200. 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.