Hill, Montana

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Chester census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59522. The Survey maps it on the Haystack Butte quadrangle.

Hill within Liberty County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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 Shelby quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Shelby quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Haystack Butte quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Sweet Grass Hills quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Hill between 2018 and 2020, burning under an acre 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	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
15 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Central Land Office	not named
1 August 2020	Natural	under an acre	Liberty County	39370

Every fire recorded in Liberty 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
Eagle Creek Colony	6.2 miles	6
Old Banks Place	9.6 miles	7
Whitlash	9.8 miles	7
Sage Creek Colony	14.0 miles	7
Alma (historical)	18.3 miles	7
Tiber	19.5 miles	6
Chester	21.5 miles	8
Lothair	21.9 miles	6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 767928. 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.