BlockEastham Junction, Montana
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Fairfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59436. It lies near Road Coulee. The Survey maps it on the Freezeout Lake quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1920 USGS Choteau quadrangle1:125000
- 1955 USGS Choteau quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Choteau quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Choteau quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Freezeout Lake quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Choteau quadrangle1:250000
- 1976 USGS Choteau quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Choteau quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Freezeout Lake quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
3 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Eastham Junction between 2016 and 2017, burning about 7 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 August 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southwestern Land Office | not named |
| 4 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Central Land Office | CHOTEAU |
| 3 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Central Land Office | CHOTEAU |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Eastham Junction: 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Titanium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Freezeout Lake Deposit | Iron, Titanium | Occurrence | ||
| J. Robinson Deposit | Iron, Titanium | Occurrence | ||
| Greenfield Lake Deposit | Iron | Occurrence |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bole | 4.6 miles | 11 | |
| Choteau Junction | 6.8 miles | 11 | |
| Choteau | 7.5 miles | 11 | |
| Truchot Hill | 9.0 miles | 11 | |
| Fairfield | 9.9 miles | 15 | |
| New Rockport Colony | 10.0 miles | 11 | |
| Cleiv | 10.7 miles | 15 | |
| Burton (historical) | 10.8 miles | 11 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122558979 | The 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 771124. 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.