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Holker, Montana

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Townsend East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59644. It stands on Greyson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Holker quadrangle.

Holker within Broadwater County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

20 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Holker between 1992 and 2020, burning about 276 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 were 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

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
3 September 2017Smokingunder an acreCentral Land Officenot named
28 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreButte Field OfficeNG 11
25 September 1994Smoking246 acresHelena - Lewis and Clark National ForestMISSOURI RIVER
24 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Land Officenot named
8 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBroadwater CountyDAVIS
31 July 2017Arson/incendiarism2.6 acresCentral Land Officenot named
31 July 2000Natural5.0 acresCentral Land Officenot named
25 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresHelena - Lewis and Clark National ForestDIAMOND GULCH MA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Broadwater County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Holker: 2 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Tungsten, Gold, Diatomite, Graphite. 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
Greyson Creek DiatomiteDiatomiteOccurrence
Heavystone No. 1 & 2TungstenUnknown
L and R PlacerGoldPast Producer
United Minerals Co. MillGraphitePast Producer

Every working recorded in Broadwater 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
Townsend5.0 miles17
Deep Creek (historical)5.5 miles19
Toston6.0 miles15
Bedford8.4 miles17
Crow Creek City (historical)8.6 miles19
Parker8.6 miles19
Brewer9.0 miles15
Radersburg9.1 miles19

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 Q122541547The 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 772471. 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.