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Evans, Montana

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Eden-Stockett census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59480. It stands on Half Breed Creek. The Survey maps it on the Evans quadrangle.

Evans within Cascade County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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.

Fires near this place

1 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Evans in 1999, burning about 50 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
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
25 March 1999Debris and open burning50 acresCentral Land OfficeMING COULEE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cascade 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Calvert2.3 miles11
Three Forks7.5 miles14
Albright (historical)7.7 miles14
Riceville8.9 miles14
Giffen10.9 miles14
Eden11.6 miles12
Pleasant Valley Colony11.6 miles14
Stockett13.2 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 783253. 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.