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Lippard, Montana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Big Sandy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59460. The Survey maps it on the Loma East quadrangle.

Lippard within Chouteau County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Lippard between 2008 and 2018, burning about 5,554 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 use1
Fireworks1
Debris and open burning1

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
30 June 2018Fireworks30 acresNortheastern Land Officenot named
24 March 2008Debris and open burning5,519 acresNortheastern Land OfficeCHOUTEAU CO COMPLEX
12 November 2016Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresCentral Land OfficeEAST RIDGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chouteau 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
Ophir (historical)4.6 miles14
Stranahan4.8 miles14
Loma6.0 miles14
Virgelle8.6 miles10
Coal Banks Landing10.3 miles9
Inga (historical)11.0 miles12
Colony Bay (historical)12.9 miles7
Pleasant Valley (historical)15.5 miles13

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 Q122550996The 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 773383. 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.