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Gunsight, Montana

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Blackfeet Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59427. The Survey maps it on the Gunsight quadrangle.

Gunsight within Glacier County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

93 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Gunsight between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,210 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 1 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 use24
Debris and open burning22
Fireworks9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Smoking8
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony4
Other causes2
Arson/incendiarism1
Firearms and explosives use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
4 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreBlackfeet AgencyAIRPLANE
27 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresBlackfeet AgencyPOWDERPUFF
15 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreBlackfeet AgencyCARTER OIL ROAD
11 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use12 acresBlackfeet AgencySLING SHOT
10 September 2015Smokingunder an acreBlackfeet AgencyFRANK
1 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBlackfeet AgencyRAILROAD#2
9 August 2005Naturalunder an acreBlackfeet AgencyAIRPORT
7 August 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBlackfeet AgencyTHOMAS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Glacier County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Gunsight: 11 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Glacier County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gunsight in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2017Thunderstorm WindGunsight-Mesonet station recorded 64 mph wind gust 10 miles south of Cut Bank.

Every storm recorded in Glacier 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
Sundance3.8 miles9
Cut Bank7.2 miles13
Seville Colony7.5 miles9
Hidden Lake Colony7.6 miles9
Santa Rita8.7 miles13
Fort Piegan9.8 miles9
Horizon Colony13.7 miles11
Glendale Colony15.0 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 772032. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.