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Lanark, Montana

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the East Roosevelt census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59218. It stands on Shell Creek. The Survey maps it on the McCabe East quadrangle.

Lanark within Roosevelt County

On record in Lanark

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 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

4 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Lanark between 2017 and 2020, burning about 3 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 use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
28 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresRoosevelt CountyFDH-MTLG17-293
14 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRoosevelt CountyFDH-MTLG17-147
27 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNortheastern Land Officenot named
27 June 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNortheastern Land Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Roosevelt 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
McCabe7.0 miles5
Bainville7.1 miles5
Culbertson8.5 miles6
Lakeside10.6 miles6
Blair14.2 miles7
Froid15.1 miles5
Snowden16.6 miles6
Boyd (historical)16.9 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 773205. 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.