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Divide, Montana

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Butte-Silver Bow South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59727. It stands on Divide Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tucker Creek quadrangle. It stands 5,384 feet above sea level.

Divide within Silver Bow County

On record in Divide

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

34 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Divide between 1992 and 2020, burning about 336 acres in total. 15 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
Natural15
Recreation and ceremony9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Debris and open burning1

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
22 September 2003Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestDAM FIRE
13 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined136 acresSilver Bow CountyTUCKER CREEK
12 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresBeaverhead CountyDIVIDE
9 August 2008Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestSHEEP GULCH
6 August 2004Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestNEZ PIERCE
30 August 2008Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestSAWMILL
3 August 2005Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestLAMARCHE GULCH
27 August 1992Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National Forestnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Silver Bow County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Divide: 11 past producers, 6 occurrences, 6 unknowns, 5 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Limestone, General, Uranium, Fluorine-Fluorite, 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
Big Hole SynclinePhosphorus-Phosphates, Vanadium, Uranium, REE, Nickel, Chromium, Fluorine-FluoritePast Producer
Copper Hill MineCopper, SilverPast ProducerVein
Gold Dust ClaimSilverProducerVein
Limestone OccurrenceLimestone, DimensionOccurrence
Limestone OccurrenceCalcium, Stone, Limestone, Dimension, Marble, Dimension, MagnesiteUnknown
Lower Moose Creek PlacerGoldPast ProducerPlacer
Maiden Rock SilicaStoneProducer
Brown Claim GroupFluorine-FluoriteOccurrenceContact Metasomatic
Brown ProspectFluorine-FluoriteUnknown
Canyon Creek QuarrySilicaProducer

Every working recorded in Silver Bow County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Divide in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 hail. 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
August 2008HailDivide-A trained spotter reported nickel sized hail.

Every storm recorded in Silver Bow 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
Maiden Rock3.8 miles17
Quinn3.9 miles17
Johnson4.5 miles16
Woodin4.6 miles16
Melrose8.9 miles17
Feely9.2 miles16
Moose Town9.7 miles16
Butte-Silver Bow (balance)11.5 miles16

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 DivideAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14704541The 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 782400. 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.