Kimball, Montana

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the South Custer census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59301. It stands on Kitty Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tepee Butte quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Kimball within Custer County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1953 USGS Miles City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Miles City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Miles City quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Tepee Butte quadrangle1:24000
1980 USGS Miles City quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Kimball (historical) between 1999 and 2007, burning about 1,475 acres in total. 3 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	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
18 September 2000	Natural	200 acres	Northeastern Land Office	TPEE BUTTE
17 September 2000	Natural	253 acres	Miles City Field Office	TEPEE BUTTE
4 August 2007	Natural	1,020 acres	Miles City Field Office	CUTT COULEE
3 December 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.0 acres	Fort Peck Agency	BIKE PATH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Custer 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
Oneill (historical)	5.1 miles	8
Mizpah	13.9 miles	8
Foundation (historical)	14.8 miles	8
Knowlton	18.2 miles	8
Beebe	24.1 miles	8
Ismay	33.5 miles	8
Volborg	34.2 miles	7
Cutler (historical)	35.3 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1716872. 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.