Johnson, Montana

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Butte-Silver Bow South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59727. It stands on North Fork Tucker Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tucker Creek quadrangle.

Johnson within Silver Bow County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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.

1893 USGS Dillon quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1955 USGS Dillon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Dillon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Dillon quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Butte South quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1962 USGS Dillon quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Dillon quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Butte South quadrangle1:100000
1989 USGS Tucker Creek quadrangle1:24000
1996 USGS Tucker Creek quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

17 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Johnson between 1992 and 2020, burning about 159 acres in total. 5 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
Recreation and ceremony	6
Natural	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Debris and open burning	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
23 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	SOUTH FORK DIVIDE CREEK
13 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	136 acres	Silver Bow County	TUCKER CREEK
5 August 1994	Natural	2.5 acres	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	not named
27 August 1992	Natural	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	not named
23 August 1994	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	not named
23 August 1994	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	not named
1 August 1996	Natural	15 acres	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	FEELY
19 July 2004	Natural	under an acre	Dillon Field Office	TUCKER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Silver Bow County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Johnson: 7 past producers, 6 occurrences, 5 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Tungsten, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Elkhorn-Buckhorn	Silica, Gold, Silver	Prospect
Elkhorn-Buckhorn Claims	Silver, Lead, Zinc	Occurrence	Vein
Gold Dust Claim	Silver	Producer	Vein
Highland Mountains Area	Phosphorus-Phosphates, Chromium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Nickel, REE, Uranium, Vanadium	Past Producer
Limestone Occurrence	Limestone, Dimension	Occurrence
Limestone Occurrence	Calcium, Stone, Limestone, Dimension, Marble, Dimension, Magnesite	Unknown
Mary Francis Claim	Gold	Past Producer	Vein
Tucker Creek Deposits	Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Fluorine-Fluorite	Unknown
Brown Claim Group	Fluorine-Fluorite	Occurrence	Contact Metasomatic
Brown Prospect	Fluorine-Fluorite	Unknown

Every working recorded in Silver Bow 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
Woodin	1.6 miles	16
Divide	4.5 miles	16
Feely	5.5 miles	16
Moose Town	6.4 miles	16
Maiden Rock	7.4 miles	17
Butte-Silver Bow (balance)	7.5 miles	16
Quinn	7.6 miles	17
Highland City (historical)	9.0 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 794174. 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.