McDonald, Montana

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Flathead Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59831. It stands on Magpie Creek. The Survey maps it on the McDonald quadrangle.

McDonald within Sanders County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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.

1956 USGS Wallace quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Wallace quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Mc Donald quadrangle1:24000
1988 USGS Mc Donald quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

76 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of McDonald between 1992 and 2020, burning about 18,981 acres in total. 40 started naturally. 5 were 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	40
Recreation and ceremony	15
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Debris and open burning	6
Arson/incendiarism	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Smoking	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
9 September 2012	Natural	4.0 acres	Flathead Agency	REVAIS 1
3 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	18 acres	Flathead Agency	EAST MAGPIE
23 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Flathead Agency	MIDDLEMIST
16 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Flathead Agency	REVAIS184
14 September 2014	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Flathead Agency	NORTH DIXON
14 September 1992	Natural	3.0 acres	Flathead Agency	MCDONALD
13 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Flathead Agency	VANDERBURG 1
11 September 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Flathead Agency	MAGPIE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sanders County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of McDonald: 9 occurrences, 8 past producers, 4 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Gold, Gold, Silver, Copper, Platinum, Palladium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Bay Horse	Platinum, Copper, Gold, Silver	Occurrence
Blue Ox Mine	Copper, Gold, Silver, Palladium, Platinum	Past Producer	Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Chrysocolla, Cuprite, Gold, Malachite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Sperrylite, Tenorite
Cardiff Mine	Silver, Lead	Occurrence
Coyote Bill Mine	Gold, Copper	Occurrence
Drake Mine	Gold, Silver, Copper, Platinum, Palladium, Lead, Nickel, Chromium, Cobalt	Past Producer	1910, 1949
Glaucus Group	Lead, Copper, Gold, Silver	Past Producer
Green Mountain Mine	Gold, Copper, Platinum	Past Producer
Mayflower Claim	Gold, Silver, Platinum, Palladium	Occurrence	Underground
Pay Rock Mine	Gold, Silver, Copper, Platinum	Occurrence	Underground
White Cloud	Copper, Gold, Silver, Platinum	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Sanders 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
Perma	7.1 miles	8
Silíp	7.9 miles	6
Old Agency	8.8 miles	6
Agency	8.9 miles	6
Camas Prairie	12.3 miles	8
Knowles	13.4 miles	9
Sloan	13.6 miles	6
Island City (historical)	17.6 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 773991. 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.