Foundation, Montana

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Shirley-Ismay census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59336. The Survey maps it on the Foundation Spring quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Foundation within Custer County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1953 USGS Miles City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Miles City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Miles City quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Baker quadrangle1:100000
1981 USGS Foundation Spring quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

16 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Foundation (historical) between 1992 and 2015, burning about 857 acres in total. 14 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	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Firearms and explosives use	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
6 September 2015	Natural	under an acre	Miles City Field Office	CORRAL
2 September 2011	Natural	1.4 acres	Miles City Field Office	HIGH POINT
2 September 2011	Natural	2.2 acres	Miles City Field Office	LOCATE
12 September 2006	Natural	9.0 acres	Miles City Field Office	WHITE KNOB
7 August 2004	Natural	194 acres	Miles City Field Office	FOUNDATION
28 August 1995	Natural	1.0 acres	Miles City Field Office	DRY COULEE
21 August 2008	Natural	4.0 acres	Miles City Field Office	FOUNDATION SPRING
8 July 2002	Natural	2.0 acres	Miles City Field Office	WELLFIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Knowlton

Every fire recorded in Custer 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
Knowlton	8.9 miles	8
Oneill (historical)	12.6 miles	8
Kimball (historical)	14.8 miles	8
Mizpah	16.3 miles	8
Ismay	18.6 miles	8
Beebe	35.2 miles	8
Shirley	40.0 miles	8
Bonfield	41.4 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1716878. 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.