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Fairmont Hot Springs, Montana

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Butte-Silver Bow Northwest census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59711. It stands on Whitepine Creek. The Survey maps it on the Opportunity quadrangle. It stands 5,128 feet above sea level.

Fairmont Hot Springs within Silver Bow County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 21 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

26 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Fairmont Hot Springs between 1992 and 2019, burning about 31 acres in total. 7 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
Natural7
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Recreation and ceremony5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 September 2007Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreSouthwestern Land Officenot named
19 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthwestern Land OfficeWILLOW CREEK
15 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresSouthwestern Land Officenot named
15 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresSouthwestern Land Officenot named
3 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresCentral Land OfficeRESERVOIR FIRE
29 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouthwestern Land Officenot named
14 August 2015Naturalunder an acreSouthwestern Land OfficeHIGH RYE
14 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.8 acresSouthwestern Land Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Silver Bow County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Fairmont Hot Springs: 4 producers, 2 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Silver, Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Geothermal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gregson Hot SpringsGeothermalProducer
Silver Bow PlacerREEUnknown
Tuxedo MineSilver, GoldPast Producer
Beal Dyke PlacerSilver, GoldProducer
Crackerville Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
P & L MineSilverProspect
S and N Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Silver Bow Creek PlacerGoldPast Producer1864

Every working recorded in Silver Bow 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
Gregson0.3 miles21
Finlen1.1 miles21
Hackney1.2 miles21
Durant1.8 miles21
Miles Crossing4.9 miles23
Ramsay7.1 miles23
Sciuchetti Place7.2 miles14
Silver Bow8.0 miles23

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Fairmont Hot SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q104603363The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 784327. 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.