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Fort Kipp, Montana

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Fort Peck Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59213. The Survey maps it on the Fort Kipp quadrangle.

Fort Kipp within Roosevelt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

97 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Fort Kipp between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,069 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 6 were 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 burning29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use12
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Natural8
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks2
Other causes1
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 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFort Peck AgencyS.FT.KIPP
3 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresNortheastern Land Officenot named
29 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use22 acresFort Peck AgencyBLAIR
27 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFort Peck AgencyT.GOURNEAU
25 September 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFort Peck AgencyMISSOURI
25 September 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresFort Peck AgencyHOLLOW
21 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRoosevelt CountyFDH-MTLG17-325
19 September 1993Debris and open burning1.5 acresFort Peck AgencyCULBERTSON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Roosevelt County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Fort Kipp: 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Roosevelt 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
Blair4.8 miles7
Boyd (historical)5.0 miles7
Calais5.3 miles9
Slab Crossing9.8 miles8
Culbertson10.5 miles6
Brockton10.7 miles9
Froid17.4 miles5
Anderson17.9 miles7

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.

Wikidata item Q122549246The 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 771512. 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.