Flatwillow Colony, Montana

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Roundup census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59072. The Survey maps it on the Big Wall NW quadrangle.

Flatwillow Colony 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
1986 USGS Big Wall NW quadrangle1:24000
1993 USGS Musselshell quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

3 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Flatwillow Colony between 2001 and 2020, burning about 1,741 acres in total. 3 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
Natural	3

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
8 August 2001	Natural	57 acres	Miles City Field Office	HOWARDCOUL
29 July 2006	Natural	1,600 acres	Billings Field Office	WILLOW CREEK
23 July 2020	Natural	84 acres	Billings Field Office	ALEC RD

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
Kilby Butte Colony	14.4 miles	6
Gage	17.8 miles	6
Roundup	19.5 miles	6
Camp Three	20.0 miles	6
Riverside	20.7 miles	6
Delphia	20.9 miles	6
Wheaton (historical)	21.5 miles	6
Gibbtown	21.7 miles	6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1723096. 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.