BlockMcCloud, Montana
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Terry North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59349. It stands on North Fork Cherry Creek. The Survey maps it on the McCloud quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1953 USGS Miles City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Miles City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Miles City quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Mc Cloud quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Terry quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
4 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of McCloud between 2012 and 2017, burning about 690 acres in total. 4 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 | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 August 2012 | Natural | 42 acres | Miles City Field Office | SCOTCH |
| 12 August 2017 | Natural | 14 acres | Miles City Field Office | JACKSON |
| 12 August 2017 | Natural | 606 acres | Miles City Field Office | CHERRY |
| 27 July 2015 | Natural | 27 acres | Miles City Field Office | MCCLURE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calypso | 12.9 miles | 8 | |
| Olanda (historical) | 15.3 miles | 6 | |
| Blatchford | 15.4 miles | 8 | |
| Saugus | 15.5 miles | 8 | |
| Terry | 17.0 miles | 8 | |
| Zero | 17.0 miles | 8 | |
| Benz | 17.4 miles | 8 | |
| Bluffport | 23.8 miles | 9 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 773972. 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.