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Fox, Montana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Roberts census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59070. The Survey maps it on the Roberts quadrangle. 100 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,031 feet above sea level.

Fox within Carbon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

10 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Fox between 2010 and 2020, burning about 3 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Debris and open burning1

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
11 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCuster Gallatin National ForestANDERSON MUTUAL AID
24 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthern Land OfficeNEHMI
14 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthern Land Office7700 US HIGHWAY 212
23 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthern Land OfficeMOOSE TRACK
17 May 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestTWO MILE MUTUAL AID
14 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCarbon CountyEAST PALISADES BASIN
28 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthern Land Office8000 HWY 212
19 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthern Land Office7883 ROBERTS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Fox: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese. 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
Jacob O. JokiManganeseUnknown

Every working recorded in Carbon County

Storms near this place

6 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fox in 6 storm reports between 2010 and 2015: 3 hail, 2 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2011FloodFox$600,000Flooding from June continued into July along Rock Creek near Two Mile Road. Emergency repairs were needed on the Two Mile Bridge(which was closed) north of Red Lodge. Rock Creek was also reported to have cut a new channel and was as high as it has ever been. As a result, residents in 4 to 5 homes were stranded in the Fox area about 6 miles north of Red Lodge. In addition, another 3 homes were under water in the Wagon Wheel Estates which is about 3 miles north of Red Lodge. Western Ranch Estates near Roberts was flooded. In addition, Grapevine and Cottonwood Roads near Silesia were closed. Rock Creek at Red Lodge rose above flood stage on the 5th and continued to run above flood stage through the 7th. The creek crested at 7.54 feet on the 5th and again at 7.69 feet on the 6th.
June 2015HailFox-Some of the hail was slightly larger than quarters.
June 2011FloodFox-County officials reported flooding along Rock Creek near 2 Mile Road which resulted in 2 Mile Road north of Red Lodge being closed. In addition, Rock Creek in Red Lodge rose above flood stage on the 29th and continued above flood stage through the end of the month. The river crested at 7.78 feet on the 29th.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindFox-An estimated wind gust of 60 mph was reported 5 miles NNE of Red Lodge.
June 2015HailFox-no account filed
June 2015HailFox-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carbon 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
Roberts6.3 miles10
Red Lodge6.5 miles15
Caledonia (historical)7.8 miles15
Scotch Coulee (historical)7.8 miles15
Washoe7.8 miles15
Bearcreek8.6 miles15
Selmes9.1 miles12
Simpkins Place10.4 miles13

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.

Wikipedia article on FoxAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5476514The 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 771584. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.