Fattig, Montana

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Klein census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59072. The Survey maps it on the Dunn Mountain North quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Fattig within Musselshell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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 Roundup quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Roundup quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Roundup quadrangle1:100000
1980 USGS Dunn Mountain North quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

5 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Fattig (historical) between 2003 and 2020, burning about 366 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Natural	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
7 August 2004	Natural	14 acres	Billings Field Office	OLSEN
9 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Southern Land Office	4 MILE RD
19 July 2006	Natural	20 acres	Southern Land Office	not named
16 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.4 acres	Musselshell County	GRAZING DISTRICT ROAD
10 April 2003	Misuse of fire by a minor	325 acres	Southern Land Office	CHANDLER

Every fire recorded in Musselshell 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
Delphia	9.9 miles	6
Gage	10.3 miles	6
Kilby Butte Colony	13.3 miles	6
Musselshell	14.0 miles	7
Republic (historical)	14.7 miles	6
Farralltown	15.2 miles	6
Klein	15.4 miles	6
Roundup	15.7 miles	6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1723099. 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.