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Frontier Town, Montana

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Helena census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59601. The Survey maps it on the MacDonald Pass quadrangle.

Frontier Town within Lewis and Clark County

On record in Frontier Town

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 24 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

116 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Frontier Town between 1992 and 2020, burning about 499 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 5 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
Recreation and ceremony40
Natural20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Railroad operations and maintenance15
Debris and open burning9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Arson/incendiarism5
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1

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
8 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHelena - Lewis and Clark National ForestDEER CR
6 September 2013Naturalunder an acreSouthwestern Land OfficeMIKE RENIG
3 September 1995Naturalunder an acreCentral Land OfficePORCUPINE
27 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouthwestern Land OfficeBLOSSBURG
25 September 2017Other causesunder an acreBlackfeet AgencyBULLS EYE
25 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined170 acresHelena - Lewis and Clark National ForestMACDONALD PASS
24 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreHelena - Lewis and Clark National ForestPRIEST PASS
23 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Land OfficeMAC PASS

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 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Frontier Town: 9 past producers, 5 occurrences, 4 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Stone, Dimension, Silver, Gold. 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
Blue Bell MineCopper, Silver, Gold, MolybdenumPast ProducerGold, Malachite, Molybdenite
Bluebell MineGold, Copper, MolybdenumPast Producer
Claystone Deposit West of BlossburgKaolinOccurrenceFeldspar, Illite, Quartz
Dog CreekLimestone, GeneralUnknown
Elliston QuarryLimestone, Ultra PureProducerLimestone
Elliston QuarryCalciumProducer
Limestone OccurrenceStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Sawmill Creek ProspectPhosphorus-Phosphates, Fluorine-Fluorite, UraniumOccurrence
UnnamedClayUnknown
White RabbitCopper, Gold, Silver, LeadUnknown

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
Forest Heights0.8 miles24
Skyline5.7 miles23
Austin5.8 miles26
Weed6.1 miles23
Belmont (historical)6.4 miles23
Rimini6.4 miles29
Blue Cloud (historical)8.0 miles26
Ferris (historical)9.5 miles24

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 Q122593126The 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 800819. 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.