Little Crooked, Montana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Roy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59471. The Survey maps it on the Carter Coulee quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Little Crooked within Fergus County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1943 USGS Landusky quadrangle1:125000
1954 USGS Carter Coulee quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Lewistown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Lewistown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Zortman quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Little Crooked (historical) between 1994 and 2020, burning about 120 acres in total. 9 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	9

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
19 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	North Central Montana District	JAKES RES
18 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	North Central Montana District	FITZNER
29 August 2013	Natural	23 acres	North Central Montana District	FRITZNER
29 August 1996	Natural	2.0 acres	Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge	ASSIST 9
21 August 2020	Natural	2.0 acres	Fergus County	BUTTON BUTTE
28 July 2009	Natural	3.0 acres	North Central Montana District	WILDER
26 June 2017	Natural	2.8 acres	North Central Montana District	SANDSTROM
24 June 1994	Natural	84 acres	North Central Montana District	SAND CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fergus 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
Rocky Point (historical)	8.7 miles	8
Mobridge (historical)	10.3 miles	11
Carroll (historical)	10.4 miles	8
Valentine	15.2 miles	8
Box Elder (historical)	22.7 miles	8
Roy	24.9 miles	8
Fergus	30.0 miles	8
Fords Creek Colony	32.6 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1722859. 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.