King Ranch Colony, Montana

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Lewistown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59457. It lies near King Coulee. The Survey maps it on the Ross Fork quadrangle.

King Ranch Colony within Fergus County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

1954 USGS Lewistown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Lewistown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1970 USGS Ross Fork quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Lewistown quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

4 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of King Ranch Colony between 2017 and 2020, burning about 4 acres in total. None 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	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
9 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northeastern Land Office	not named
5 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Northeastern Land Office	not named
13 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Fergus County	FDH-MTLG08-120
20 June 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Northeastern Land Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fergus County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of King Ranch Colony: 9 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Titanium, Metal, Thorium, Iron, Gold, Mercury, Palladium, Platinum. 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
Cable	Mercury	Occurrence	Placer
Janet 55w	Palladium, Platinum, Nickel, Copper	Past Producer
Trail Creek Deposit	Iron, Thorium, Titanium, Metal	Occurrence
Unnamed Location	Clay	Occurrence
Beal Mountain Mine	Gold	Producer
Golden Sunrise Mine	Gold	Producer
Cameron Creek Deposit	Titanium, Metal, Thorium, Iron	Occurrence
Powder Gulch Deposit	Titanium, Metal, Thorium, Iron	Occurrence
Price Gulch Deposit	Titanium, Metal, Thorium, Iron	Occurrence
Rye Creek Deposit	Titanium, Metal, Thorium, Iron	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Fergus 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
Ross Fork	3.3 miles	8
Glengarry	5.1 miles	8
Kingston	5.5 miles	8
Spring Creek Junction	6.0 miles	8
Seright (historical)	6.1 miles	11
Hanover	6.3 miles	8
Moore	6.4 miles	11
Amherst	6.5 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 801014. 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.