Elgin, Montana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Alzada-Boyes census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59324. The Survey maps it on the Camp Needmore quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Elgin within Carter County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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 Ekalaka quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Ekalaka quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Ekalaka quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Ekalaka quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Camp Needmore quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Ekalaka quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Camp Needmore quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

18 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Elgin (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,424 acres in total. 9 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	9
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Recreation and ceremony	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
8 August 2017	Natural	2.2 acres	Miles City Field Office	MCCABE
7 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	100 acres	Miles City Field Office	FORD
6 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	51 acres	Carter County	RAMME
4 August 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Miles City Field Office	COYOTE
4 August 1996	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	SMOKEY
30 August 2009	Natural	3.0 acres	Miles City Field Office	MCCABE
27 August 2000	Natural	2.0 acres	Miles City Field Office	TERRELL
2 August 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	29 acres	Miles City Field Office	MCCABE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carter County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Elgin (historical): 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium. 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
	Ekalaka Hills	Uranium	Occurrence
	Ekalaka Lignite Field	Uranium	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Carter 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
Prairie Dale (historical)	5.7 miles	8
Pershing (historical)	6.7 miles	8
Belltower	8.2 miles	8
Ekalaka	11.7 miles	9
Mill Iron	12.9 miles	9
Beaver Flats (historical)	16.1 miles	9
Chalk Buttes (historical)	18.0 miles	9
Ridgeway	19.0 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1688764. 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.