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Heath, Montana

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Lewistown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59457. The Survey maps it on the Heath quadrangle.

Heath within Fergus County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

3 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Heath in 2017, burning about 2 acres in total. None 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 use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
26 July 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNortheastern Land Officenot named
19 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.1 acresFergus CountyHORSETHIEF
12 July 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNortheastern Land Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fergus County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Heath: 3 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Clay. 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
Kootenai Formation ClaysClayOccurrence
Piper DepositGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrence
Shoemaker MineGypsum-AnhydriteProducer1905, 1916
U.S. Gypsum Co. MineGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
United States Gypsum's PropertyGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Unnamed LocationGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrence

Every working recorded in Fergus County

Storms near this place

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Heath in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2019: 1 heavy rain, 1 hail. 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 2019HailHeath-Storm chaser reports hail of 1.25 inches in diameter.
August 2014Heavy RainHeath-Heavy rain, measuring over 2.00 inches in 24 hours, was reported.

Every storm recorded in Fergus 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
Piper3.6 miles11
Box Springs (historical)4.3 miles13
Skaggs (historical)4.8 miles13
Corbly (historical)7.4 miles13
Cheadle (historical)7.6 miles13
Nelson (historical)7.7 miles13
Ruby Gulch (historical)8.2 miles13
Lewistown Junction8.9 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 784697. 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.