BlockEdwards Crossing, Montana
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Blackfeet Reservation East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59486. The Survey maps it on the Flag Butte quadrangle.
On record in Edwards Crossing
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 within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
- Two Medicine Fight Sitelisted 1970 · 0.6 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 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 Dupuyer quadrangle1:125000
- 1934 USGS Lake Frances quadrangle1:48000
- 1937 USGS Lake Frances quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Cut Bank quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1963 USGS Cut Bank quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Cut Bank quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Valier quadrangle1:100000
- 1985 USGS Flag Butte quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
13 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Edwards Crossing between 1993 and 2019, burning about 498 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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 | 6 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 150 acres | Blackfeet Agency | OIL FIRE |
| 26 August 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 78 acres | Blackfeet Agency | PROVIDENCE ROAD |
| 18 August 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Blackfeet Agency | OIL WELL |
| 14 August 2015 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Blackfeet Agency | COTTONWOOD |
| 4 July 2016 | Fireworks | 1.0 acres | Blackfeet Agency | HENSLEY |
| 18 July 2018 | Smoking | under an acre | Blackfeet Agency | BADGER |
| 17 July 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | 140 acres | Blackfeet Agency | MISSION RD |
| 15 July 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 7.3 acres | Blackfeet Agency | HUGO FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hagans Crossing | 3.4 miles | 11 | |
| Shields Crossing | 5.0 miles | 12 | |
| Pierce Crossing | 8.5 miles | 12 | |
| Aubrey Crossing | 9.2 miles | 12 | |
| Blair Crossing | 9.6 miles | 12 | |
| Kuka Crossing | 11.0 miles | 12 | |
| Robere (historical) | 11.1 miles | 12 | |
| Kingsbury Colony | 11.5 miles | 12 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 771145. 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.