Lost Creek, Montana

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.

• 1889 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
• 1893 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1899 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
• 1903 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1947 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
• 1960 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Anaconda quadrangle1:62500
• 1962 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000
• 1989 USGS Anaconda North quadrangle1:24000
• 1994 USGS Butte North quadrangle1:100000
• 1996 USGS Anaconda North quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Lost Creek between 1992 and 2019, burning about 23 acres in total. 10 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Anaconda
• Sunnyside
• Mill Creek
• Mine Creek
• West Valley
• Fredrickson (historical)

Every fire recorded in Deer Lodge County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Lost Creek: 13 occurrences, 11 past producers, 5 unknowns, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Fire Clay (Refractory), Limestone, General, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Deer Lodge County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 786575. 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.