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East Butte, Montana

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Butte census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59701. The Survey maps it on the Elk Park Pass quadrangle.

East Butte within Silver Bow County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 28 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

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of East Butte between 1996 and 2019, burning about 2 acres in total. 6 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
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony3

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
4 August 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestPENNY
26 August 2011Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestELK PARK
24 August 2012Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestELK PARK
23 August 2007Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestMARY EMMEE
22 July 2011Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestHANEY
2 July 2016Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestSADDLE ROCK
9 June 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestEAST RIDGE
19 May 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestLADY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Silver Bow County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 330 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 330 workings within 5 miles of East Butte: 186 past producers, 58 prospects, 43 occurrences, 21 producers. 22 still produce. What was taken out: Manganese, Silver, Copper, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ajax MineSilica, Copper, Gold, SilverUnknown
Alice MineSilver, Gold, Zinc, Lead, Manganese, BerylliumPast Producer1960
Belmont MineCopper, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Gold, ArsenicPast Producer1957
Black Rock MineSilver, Zinc, Lead, ManganeseProducerRhodochrosite, Rhodonite, Sphalerite
Bullwhacker MineMolybdenum, CopperOccurrence
Butte DistrictLead, Zinc, Manganese, Silver, Copper, Gold, Tellurium, Sulfur, Cadmium, Selenium, Calcium, BismuthProducer1880
Butte, Veins (Anaconda)Copper, Silver, Gold, Bismuth, Cadmium, Manganese, Zinc, Lead, Selenium, TelluriumPast Producer1875, 1880, 2000
Carver TailingsCopper, Silver, Lead, Zinc, GoldOccurrence
Carver TailingsGold, Zinc, Lead, Silver, CopperPast Producer
Cr 1StonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Silver Bow County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Butte in 1 storm report in 2009: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2009Thunderstorm WindEast Butte-The Elk Park Department of Transportation weather station measured a thunderstorm wind gust up to 69 mph.

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
McQueen0.6 miles28
Silver Bow Park0.7 miles28
Meaderville0.9 miles23
Floral Park1.8 miles15
Columbia Gardens1.8 miles28
Butte2.1 miles23
Pioneer2.1 miles23
Centerville2.3 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 782788. 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.