BlockMcDermott, Montana
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Sunburst census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59484. It lies near West Butte. The Survey maps it on the West Butte quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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.
- 1945 USGS West Butte quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Shelby quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Shelby quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Sweet Grass Hills quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS West Butte quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
2 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of McDermott (historical) between 2005 and 2018, burning about 10 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 August 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Central Land Office | not named |
| 25 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Central Land Office | not named |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gold Butte | 7.8 miles | 7 | |
| Kippen | 12.3 miles | 8 | |
| Ferdig | 17.3 miles | 9 | |
| Ohio Camp | 18.0 miles | 9 | |
| Oilmont | 20.7 miles | 8 | |
| Sunburst | 20.7 miles | 9 | |
| Sweet Grass | 23.9 miles | 9 | |
| Kevin | 26.2 miles | 8 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1750060. 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.