BlockGolden Valley Colony, Montana
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Ryegate census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59074. The Survey maps it on the Ryegate West quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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 Big Snowy Mountain quadrangle1:250000
- 1893 USGS Big Snowy Mountain quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Roundup quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Roundup quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Ryegate West quadrangle1:24000
- 1993 USGS Harlowton quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
4 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Golden Valley Colony between 2008 and 2020, burning about 3,824 acres in total. 2 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 | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Northeastern Land Office | not named |
| 30 August 2008 | Natural | 3,558 acres | Northeastern Land Office | GOLDEN VALLEY COMPLEX |
| 20 August 2020 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Golden Valley County | BOB AND DAN |
| 19 July 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 264 acres | North Central Montana District | TODD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ryegate | 2.9 miles | 11 | |
| Dodgetown (historical) | 5.7 miles | 11 | |
| Barber | 7.0 miles | 11 | |
| Seventynine (historical) | 7.6 miles | 11 | |
| Franklin | 7.9 miles | 11 | |
| Slayton Junction (historical) | 11.6 miles | 11 | |
| Cushman | 12.5 miles | 11 | |
| Belmont | 15.2 miles | 7 |
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 Q122572242 | The 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 805756. 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.