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Kelley, Montana

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Winnett South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59087. The Survey maps it on the Kelley quadrangle.

Kelley within Petroleum 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.

Fires near this place

2 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Kelley between 1994 and 2017, burning about 445 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
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
11 September 1994Natural400 acresNorth Central Montana DistrictKELLY SITE
14 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined45 acresSouthern Land OfficeHOWARD COULEE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Petroleum 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
Flatwillow12.7 miles6
Wallview (historical)15.3 miles6
Hoyle (historical)17.1 miles8
Weede (historical)17.3 miles9
Winnett18.9 miles8
Jitney (historical)19.4 miles9
Shay (historical)21.4 miles8
Cat Creek22.7 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 772957. 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.