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Kuka Crossing, Montana

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Blackfeet Reservation East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59486. It lies near Cartwright Coulee. The Survey maps it on the Kuka Crossing quadrangle.

Kuka Crossing within Pondera County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Kuka Crossing between 1994 and 2009, burning about 484 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
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1
Natural1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
16 September 2009Smoking2.0 acresBlackfeet AgencyCIGARETTE FIRE
7 August 2005Naturalunder an acreBlackfeet AgencyPONY RD
22 July 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresBlackfeet AgencyKUKA FIRE
27 April 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresBlackfeet AgencyBULLFIRE
6 March 2005Equipment and vehicle use460 acresBlackfeet AgencyTRUCK
10 March 1994Equipment and vehicle use20 acresBlackfeet AgencyCONNELLYS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pondera 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
Aubrey Crossing1.9 miles12
Pondera Colony3.7 miles12
Kingsbury Colony5.1 miles12
Broadhead (historical)5.1 miles12
Pierce Crossing5.6 miles12
Birch Creek Colony6.1 miles12
Valier7.6 miles12
Blair Crossing8.2 miles12

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 Q122572944The 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 773147. 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.