Etna, Montana

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Stevensville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59870. It stands on South Willoughby Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bing quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Etna within Ravalli County

On record in Etna

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 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Etna Schoollisted 1997 · 0.5 miles away
Martin Cramer Houselisted 1987 · 0.7 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

1901 USGS Hamilton quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1956 USGS Hamilton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Hamilton quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Hamilton quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Hamilton quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Bing quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1980 USGS Hamilton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1998 USGS Bing quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

14 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Etna (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 15 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
Debris and open burning	8
Natural	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
2 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Southwestern Land Office	not named
2 September 2001	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Southwestern Land Office	not named
17 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	RavaIIi County	710 MOON SHADOW LN
25 July 1992	Natural	1.0 acres	Bitterroot National Forest	not named
25 May 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Bitterroot National Forest	CURLEW MINE
25 May 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Bitterroot National Forest	DICKENS
19 May 1992	Natural	under an acre	Bitterroot National Forest	not named
14 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	RavaIIi County	SFD - CFS2005-1280

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ravalli County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Etna (historical): 10 occurrences, 5 unknowns, 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Pumice, Gold, Titanium, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Curlew	Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc	Producer	Pyrite
Curlew	Silver, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Curlew Mine	Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Gold	Past Producer	1887, 1891
Main River Valley	Iron, Titanium, Zirconium, Thorium	Unknown
Mccalla Creek	Titanium, Iron, Zirconium	Unknown
Mccalla Creek Placer Area	Garnet, Titanium, Metal, Thorium, Zirconium, Iron	Occurrence	Garnet, Ilmenite, Magnetite, Monazite, Zircon
Silverthorn Creek	Titanium, Zirconium, Iron, Thorium	Unknown
Smith Mine	Silver, Copper, Zinc, Lead, Gold	Occurrence
Strife Prospect	Tungsten	Occurrence
Victor Deposit	Titanium, Iron, Thorium, Zirconium	Prospect

Every working recorded in Ravalli 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
Bing	0.5 miles	17
Bell Crossing	2.2 miles	17
Victor Crossing	2.5 miles	17
Cinnabar Court	3.2 miles	17
Victor	3.7 miles	15
Mountain Shadows Estates	4.2 miles	17
Apple Blossom Court	4.7 miles	14
Stevensville	5.1 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1803088. 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.