Free Deal, Montana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the South Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59248. It lies near Scout Island. The Survey maps it on the Fort Peck quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Free Deal within Valley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1914 USGS Nashua quadrangle1:62500
1916 USGS Nashua quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Glasgow quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Glasgow quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Glasgow quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1972 USGS Fort Peck quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Glasgow quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

11 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Free Deal (historical) between 1994 and 2017, burning about 383 acres in total. 5 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	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Firearms and explosives use	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
1 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge	NATOUT1
31 August 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge	POWERHOUSE
11 August 2000	Natural	145 acres	Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge	SCOUT
4 July 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge	FLAT LAKE
24 July 2013	Natural	8.0 acres	Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge	HORSE PASTURE
11 July 2017	Natural	under an acre	Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge	TROPHY DOE
30 June 2003	Natural	under an acre	Miles City Field Office	ARTZ COULE
19 June 1997	Natural	3.0 acres	Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge	BEACH#1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Valley 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
Park Dale (historical)	0.3 miles	11
Idlewile (historical)	0.6 miles	11
Park Grove	0.7 miles	11
Square Deal (historical)	1.4 miles	11
New Deal (historical)	1.7 miles	11
Fort Peck	2.1 miles	11
Delano Heights (historical)	3.9 miles	11
Lakeview (historical)	4.0 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1819623. 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.