BlockKilby Butte Colony, Montana
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Roundup census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59072. The Survey maps it on the Big Wall East quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 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 Roundup quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Roundup quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Big Wall East quadrangle1:24000
- 1993 USGS Musselshell quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
6 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Kilby Butte Colony between 2010 and 2017, burning about 4,303 acres in total. 4 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 | 4 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 September 2012 | Natural | 486 acres | Southern Land Office | ALLEN FIRE |
| 28 August 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Billings Field Office | BIG WALL |
| 16 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southern Land Office | TULLOCK |
| 16 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.6 acres | Southern Land Office | BOOTH |
| 14 July 2017 | Natural | 3,800 acres | Billings Field Office | NORTH DELPHIA |
| 28 May 2016 | Natural | 12 acres | Billings Field Office | ALLEN ROAD |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gage | 5.3 miles | 6 | |
| Delphia | 7.5 miles | 6 | |
| Roundup | 12.3 miles | 6 | |
| Fattig (historical) | 13.3 miles | 6 | |
| Camp Three | 13.5 miles | 6 | |
| Musselshell | 13.8 miles | 7 | |
| Republic (historical) | 14.0 miles | 6 | |
| Riverside | 14.2 miles | 6 |
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 Q122596334 | The 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 1723119. 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.