BlockLower Ellis Place, Montana
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Augusta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59648. It stands on Gillette Creek. The Survey maps it on the Krone Ranch quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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 Hogan quadrangle1:125000
- 1955 USGS Choteau quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Choteau quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Choteau quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Choteau quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Krone Ranch quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1976 USGS Choteau quadrangle1:250000
- 1993 USGS Dearborn River quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
7 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Lower Ellis Place between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,617 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 760 acres | Central Land Office | GOBBLERS KNOB |
| 10 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 228 acres | Central Land Office | PANAMA MA |
| 2 August 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 619 acres | Central Land Office | WILSON MA |
| 19 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Central Land Office | AUGUSTA |
| 15 July 2017 | Natural | 790 acres | Central Land Office | HIGHWAY 435 MA |
| 18 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Central Land Office | not named |
| 2 October 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 220 acres | Lewis & Clark County | 202124 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Ellis Place | 3.3 miles | 10 | |
| La Chapelle Place | 3.9 miles | 10 | |
| Milford Colony | 5.4 miles | 10 | |
| Clemons (historical) | 6.5 miles | 10 | |
| Dearborn (historical) | 12.2 miles | 11 | |
| Augusta | 15.4 miles | 10 | |
| Frost (historical) | 15.5 miles | 13 | |
| Gilman | 16.1 miles | 11 |
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 Q122591752 | The 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 801108. 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.