BlockHoyle, Montana
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Winnett South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59087. It lies near Bull Springs Coulee. The Survey maps it on the Ingals Dam quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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
- 1986 USGS Ingals Dam quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Winnett quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
4 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Hoyle (historical) between 1998 and 2020, burning about 53 acres in total. 2 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 | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 July 2020 | Natural | 51 acres | Petroleum County | MIDNIGHT |
| 21 May 1998 | Natural | under an acre | North Central Montana District | STRAWBALE |
| 2 May 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Petroleum County | FDH-MTLG55-17 |
| 11 February 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Petroleum County | FDH-MTLG55-54 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shay (historical) | 4.3 miles | 8 | |
| Jitney (historical) | 7.4 miles | 9 | |
| Cat Creek | 9.2 miles | 9 | |
| Winnett | 9.9 miles | 8 | |
| Weede (historical) | 14.3 miles | 9 | |
| Kelley | 17.1 miles | 6 | |
| Flatwillow | 17.6 miles | 6 | |
| Teigen | 22.9 miles | 8 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1721598. 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.