Lee, Montana

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Rosebud census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59327. It stands on Cow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hammond Draw SW quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Lee within Rosebud County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 6 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 Hardin quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Hardin quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Hardin quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Hammond Draw SW quadrangle1:24000
1980 USGS Lame Deer quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

13 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Lee (historical) between 1993 and 2020, burning about 8,701 acres in total. 13 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	13

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
7 September 2017	Natural	167 acres	Miles City Field Office	HART
25 September 2020	Natural	under an acre	Rosebud County	SAND COULEE
31 August 2017	Natural	6,643 acres	Miles City Field Office	SNIDER
10 August 2008	Natural	5.0 acres	Eastern Land Office	not named
31 July 2012	Natural	758 acres	Miles City Field Office	SAND CREEK
29 July 2017	Natural	972 acres	Miles City Field Office	TREMBLING
2 July 2017	Natural	under an acre	Miles City Field Office	GREENLEAF
18 July 2018	Natural	92 acres	Miles City Field Office	ROMEO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Signal Butte (historical)

Every fire recorded in Rosebud 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
Signal Butte (historical)	6.3 miles	6
Brandenberg	9.1 miles	6
Wood Place	10.2 miles	8
Colstrip	12.4 miles	6
Crain Place	12.9 miles	8
Hopsonville (historical)	14.0 miles	6
Sabra (historical)	15.8 miles	8
Ashland	19.9 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1716783. 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.