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Four Range, Montana

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Helena census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59635. The Survey maps it on the East Helena quadrangle.

Four Range within Lewis and Clark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 21 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

135 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 135 fires within 5 miles of Four Range between 1992 and 2020, burning about 900 acres in total. 27 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined40
Natural27
Debris and open burning19
Railroad operations and maintenance15
Recreation and ceremony9
Equipment and vehicle use9
Fireworks7
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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
7 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreCentral Land OfficeCAIRN LN
6 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Land OfficeEAST VALLEY
6 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCentral Land OfficeEAST VALLEY
17 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresCentral Land Officenot named
14 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Land OfficeHWY 282 MA
14 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Land OfficeDAHL DR MA
11 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Land OfficeI-15 MM186
9 August 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCentral Land Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis and Clark County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 34 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 34 workings within 5 miles of Four Range: 11 past producers, 10 occurrences, 5 unknowns, 5 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Limestone, General, Limestone, Dimension, Pumice. 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
(Facility) East Helena Lead SmelterLead, Smelter, Sulfur, Sulfuric AcidPlant
Asarco Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Aurora MineGold, Copper, Silver, ZincOccurrence
Bompart HomesteadMicaOccurrence
C. E. S. Ballard, EtalUranium, ThoriumOccurrenceVein
Clark LeadLeadProspect
Dry GulchTalc-SoapstoneUnknown
East Helena Plant AsarcoSilver, Lead, Gold, CopperPast Producer
Easy Money GroupGold, Copper, Silver, LeadPast Producer
Helena Slag DumpIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Lewis and Clark 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
East Helena0.8 miles21
Helena5.8 miles30
Evergreen Court6.5 miles28
Kenwood (historical)7.7 miles30
Lakeside8.2 miles19
Broadwater8.5 miles30
Unionville8.8 miles30
Dotsonville (historical)9.0 miles30

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 Q122593261The 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 800809. 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.