Garrison, Montana

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Great Falls census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59485. The Survey maps it on the Ulm quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Garrison within Cascade County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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.

1886 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1949 USGS Cascade quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1951 USGS Cascade quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000
1976 USGS Great Falls South quadrangle1:100000
1983 USGS Ulm quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

6 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Garrison (historical) between 2017 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Natural	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
6 August 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	2.0 acres	Central Land Office	ULM
5 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Central Land Office	DEARBORN
9 July 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	2.0 acres	Central Land Office	ULM
30 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Central Land Office	ULM
4 June 2018	Natural	under an acre	Central Land Office	not named
16 April 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	30 acres	Cascade County	MEDOWS ROAD FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cascade 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
Riverdale	2.9 miles	15
Fair Haven Colony	4.0 miles	16
Ulm	4.4 miles	16
Castner Falls	6.1 miles	12
Truly	6.5 miles	12
Saint Clair (historical)	9.5 miles	15
Cascade	10.6 miles	15
Sun Prairie	11.6 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1762385. 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.