Dryland, Montana

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Grass Range census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59441. The Survey maps it on the Fish Dam quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Dryland 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
1986 USGS Fish Dam quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Winnett quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

6 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Dryland (historical) between 2005 and 2020, burning about 147 acres in total. 4 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	4
Debris and open burning	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
6 August 2010	Natural	45 acres	North Central Montana District	PIERCE
6 July 2016	Natural	1.4 acres	North Central Montana District	PIERCE
25 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fergus County	FDH-MTLG08-149
16 July 2005	Natural	under an acre	North Central Montana District	MCDONALD
2 June 2017	Natural	under an acre	North Central Montana District	TYLER CUTOFF
1 February 2020	Debris and open burning	100 acres	Fergus County	MUNGER LANE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

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
Becket	1.9 miles	6
Ayers Ranch Colony	2.7 miles	8
Chippewa (historical)	5.6 miles	8
Novary (historical)	5.9 miles	13
Forestgrove	7.1 miles	12
Grass Range	7.7 miles	8
Fords Creek Colony	8.3 miles	8
Cheadle (historical)	11.3 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1722866. 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.