Erickson, Montana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Conrad census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59425. The Survey maps it on the Gallup City quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Erickson within Pondera County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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.

1920 USGS Dupuyer quadrangle1:125000
1938 USGS Gallup City quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1942 USGS Gallup City quadrangle1:62500
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 Gallup City quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

5 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Erickson (historical) between 2018 and 2019, burning about 22 acres in total. 2 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	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	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
19 August 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Central Land Office	not named
11 August 2018	Natural	10 acres	Central Land Office	not named
11 August 2018	Natural	10 acres	Central Land Office	not named
30 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Central Land Office	not named
6 April 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Pondera County	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pondera County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Erickson (historical): 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Barium-Barite. 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
	Unnamed Location	Barium-Barite	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Pondera 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
Gallup City	1.8 miles	11
Midway Colony	6.0 miles	7
Conrad	8.6 miles	8
Manson	9.6 miles	11
Midway (historical)	11.1 miles	7
Williams	11.3 miles	12
New Miami Colony	11.5 miles	12
Belgian Colony (historical)	14.3 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1748889. 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.