Foster, Montana

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.

• 1894 USGS Fort Custer quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
• 1954 USGS Hardin quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Hardin quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Hardin quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Foster quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1981 USGS Hardin quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Foster between 2016 and 2020, burning about 607 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Kingley
• Carperville (historical)
• Old Ford Place

Every fire recorded in Big Horn County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 771534. 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.