Dunmore, Montana

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Crow Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59034. The Survey maps it on the Hardin quadrangle.

Dunmore within Big Horn County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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.

1894 USGS Fort Custer quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Hardin quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Hardin quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Hardin quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Hardin quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Hardin quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

416 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 416 fires within 5 miles of Dunmore between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,310 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 45 were 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	111
Debris and open burning	83
Equipment and vehicle use	49
Arson/incendiarism	45
Fireworks	32
Smoking	27
Railroad operations and maintenance	24
Misuse of fire by a minor	17
Natural	14
Recreation and ceremony	10
Other causes	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
8 September 1998	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Crow Agency	RAILROAD
7 September 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Crow Agency	STEWART
6 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Southern Land Office	MILE MARKER 505 A
5 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.4 acres	Crow Agency	ROADSIDE 491
5 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Crow Agency	GOOD BYE
4 September 1997	Smoking	1.0 acres	Crow Agency	DUNMORE
4 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Crow Agency	not named
3 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Crow Agency	MEDIAN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Big Horn County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Dunmore: 6 unknowns, 6 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Pumice, Bentonite. 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
Unnamed Bentonite Occurrence	Bentonite	Occurrence
Crow Reservation Ash	Pumice	Occurrence
Pumicite Prospect	Pumice	Prospect
Unnamed Bentonite	Clay	Occurrence
Unnamed Bentonite	Clay	Occurrence
Unnamed Bentonite	Clay	Occurrence
Unnamed Location	Clay	Occurrence
Unnamed Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unnamed Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unnamed Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Big Horn 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
Crow Agency	5.8 miles	7
Hardin	6.8 miles	12
Garryowen	11.4 miles	7
Carperville (historical)	13.4 miles	11
Rowley	14.7 miles	10
Old Ford Place	15.7 miles	6
Kingley	16.0 miles	11
Benteen	16.4 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 770909. 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.