Golf Bench, Montana

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1964. It stands in the Chinook census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59535. The Survey maps it on the Ragland Bench quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Golf Bench within Blaine County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 7 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.

1954 USGS Lewistown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Lewistown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1964 USGS Chase Hill quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Golf Bench (historical) between 1994 and 2009, burning about 66 acres in total. 6 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	6

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
9 September 2005	Natural	30 acres	North Central Montana District	TREE
2 September 2004	Natural	20 acres	North Central Montana District	BLACK COUL
19 September 1994	Natural	2.0 acres	North Central Montana District	STAFFORD
30 August 1996	Natural	1.0 acres	North Central Montana District	LONE TREE
5 July 2009	Natural	2.5 acres	Malta Field Office	BLACK COULEE
21 June 1994	Natural	10 acres	North Central Montana District	CHASEHILL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Blaine 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
Hosey (historical)	1.8 miles	7
Ragland Bench (historical)	5.0 miles	7
Leroy	10.0 miles	8
Riedel (historical)	12.8 miles	7
Sour Dough Flat (historical)	13.2 miles	7
Maddux	21.6 miles	8
Hungry Hollow (historical)	25.9 miles	8
Bearpaw (historical)	27.2 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1722383. 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.