McClave, Montana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Lewistown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59418. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Buffalo quadrangle.

McClave within Fergus County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1889 USGS Big Snowy Mountain quadrangle1:250000
1893 USGS Big Snowy Mountain quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Roundup quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Roundup quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1970 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:24000
1993 USGS Big Snowy Mountains quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of McClave in 2017, burning about 2 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 use	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
2 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	2.3 acres	Northeastern Land Office	not named

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
Buffalo	3.0 miles	11
Straw	3.3 miles	11
Garneill	4.0 miles	11
Eddies Corner	12.2 miles	11
Moore	12.2 miles	11
Rockford (historical)	12.4 miles	11
Seright (historical)	13.1 miles	11
Beaver Creek	18.2 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 773952. 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.