Fredrickson, Montana

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Warm Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59722. The Survey maps it on the Warm Springs quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Fredrickson within Deer Lodge 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.

1889 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1893 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1899 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1903 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1947 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1960 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Anaconda quadrangle1:62500
1962 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000
1989 USGS Warm Springs quadrangle1:24000
1994 USGS Butte North quadrangle1:100000
1996 USGS Warm Springs quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

12 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Fredrickson (historical) between 1993 and 2017, burning about 84 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined	4
Smoking	3
Natural	3
Debris and open burning	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
8 September 2017	Smoking	under an acre	Southwestern Land Office	not named
26 September 2017	Smoking	under an acre	Southwestern Land Office	not named
4 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Southwestern Land Office	not named
28 August 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Southwestern Land Office	SPRING GULCH
19 August 2007	Natural	3.9 acres	Southwestern Land Office	not named
11 August 2009	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Southwestern Land Office	DRY COTTONWOOD
16 July 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Southwestern Land Office	RACETRACK
13 July 2000	Natural	2.0 acres	Southwestern Land Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Deer Lodge County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Fredrickson (historical): 4 occurrences, 3 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Pumice, Gold, Limestone, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Dark Horse	Gold, Copper, Silver	Unknown
Dry Cottonwood Creek	Sapphire, Gold	Occurrence
Limestone Occurrence	Limestone, Dimension	Occurrence
Lucky Sunday Mine	Copper, Lead, Silver	Past Producer	Unknown
Lucky Sunday Mine	Silver, Copper, Lead	Past Producer
Warm Springs	Geothermal	Producer
Hoodoo Gulch	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Timber Gulch	Limestone, General	Unknown
Unnamed Pumice	Pumice	Occurrence
Unnamed Pumice	Pumice	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Deer Lodge 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
Galen	2.6 miles	21
Warm Springs	4.5 miles	21
Morel	6.8 miles	21
Lost Creek	7.8 miles	21
Opportunity	9.0 miles	21
Mine Creek	9.7 miles	21
Anaconda	9.8 miles	21
Mill Creek	10.0 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1786406. 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.