Kaiver, Montana

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Fort Peck Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59248. It stands on Sargent Creek. The Survey maps it on the Uhlan Coulee quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Kaiver within Valley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

1918 USGS Porcupine Valley quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Glasgow quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Glasgow quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Glasgow quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Uhlan Coulee quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Glasgow quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Kaiver (historical) between 1996 and 2008, burning about 1,282 acres 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	4
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
3 August 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	1,265 acres	Fort Peck Agency	PORCUPINEC
27 July 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Fort Peck Agency	W.MCDONALD
14 July 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	7.1 acres	Fort Peck Agency	GLENTANA 2
13 July 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	5.8 acres	Fort Peck Agency	GLENTANA
18 March 2008	Natural	3.0 acres	Fort Peck Agency	E. PORKY

Every fire recorded in Valley 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
Nashua	10.4 miles	11
Whately	10.5 miles	10
Rose Hill (historical)	10.8 miles	9
Saint Marie	11.4 miles	9
Wiota (historical)	14.3 miles	11
Glasgow	14.5 miles	10
Idlewile (historical)	16.5 miles	11
Park Dale (historical)	16.6 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1688522. 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.