Knife River, Montana

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Savage-Crane census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59262. It lies near Peabody Coulee. The Survey maps it on the Savage quadrangle. 320 people lived here at the 2010 count. It stands 1,991 feet above sea level.

Knife River within Richland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1909 USGS Glendive quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Glendive quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Glendive quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Glendive quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Savage quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Glendive quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

8 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Knife River between 2016 and 2017, burning about 20 acres in total. 2 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	2
Natural	2
Debris and open burning	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
2 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	Eastern Land Office	MCKEAN - MCCONE
2 September 2016	Natural	14 acres	Eastern Land Office	DENWOODY - MCCONE
29 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Eastern Land Office	WATER PLANT - MCCONE
22 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Eastern Land Office	BEEF SLOUGH
11 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Eastern Land Office	PEABODY
1 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Eastern Land Office	ELK ISLAND
20 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Eastern Land Office	CIRCLE - MCCONE
8 March 2016	Debris and open burning	2.8 acres	Eastern Land Office	BECKER- MCCONE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Richland 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
Savage	0.1 miles	8
Midway	4.5 miles	7
Hoffmanville	4.6 miles	7
Burns	6.1 miles	8
Sears (historical)	6.8 miles	7
Crane	9.5 miles	7
Piche	12.3 miles	7
Newlon Junction	16.2 miles	8

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.

Wikipedia article on Knife River	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q964065	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 1853183. 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.