Lonesome Prairie, Montana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Big Sandy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59520. The Survey maps it on the Kenilworth NE quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Lonesome Prairie within Chouteau County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1906 USGS Lonesome quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1919 USGS Big Sandy quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Shelby quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Shelby quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Kenilworth NE quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Lonesome Lake quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Lonesome Prairie (historical) between 2007 and 2012, burning about 554 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
Natural	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

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
15 July 2007	Natural	541 acres	North Central Montana District	LONESOME LAKE
16 October 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13 acres	Rocky Boy's Agency	DIELMAN

Every fire recorded in Chouteau County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Lonesome Prairie (historical): 4 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unnamed Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unnamed Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unnamed Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unnamed Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Verona	9.3 miles	9
Big Sandy	9.4 miles	8
Inga (historical)	10.3 miles	12
Kenilworth	10.3 miles	10
Rocky Crossing	10.6 miles	10
Coal Banks Landing	14.7 miles	9
Virgelle	15.8 miles	10
Stranahan	17.4 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1750144. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.