Fife, Montana

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1976. It stands in the Belt census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59405. The Survey maps it on the Fife quadrangle.

Fife within Cascade County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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.

1886 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1955 USGS Stockett quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1957 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Fife quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1976 USGS Great Falls South quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

5 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Fife between 2017 and 2019, burning about 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
9 July 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Central Land Office	BELT RURAL
30 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Cascade County	SPRING CREEK
13 July 2019	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Cascade County	FIFE FIRE
23 June 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Central Land Office	BELT RURAL
14 April 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Cascade County	BUMGARNER

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Wayne	3.5 miles	15
Box Elder (historical)	3.5 miles	15
Salem	5.7 miles	18
Rogers	6.2 miles	16
Belt	7.1 miles	15
Gerber	7.5 miles	16
Belton (historical)	7.5 miles	15
Tracy	7.5 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 771337. 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.