BlockMcElroy, Montana
5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Westby census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59275. The Survey maps it on the Westby North quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
3 surveys from 5 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.
- 1954 USGS Wolf Point quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Wolf Point quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Westby North quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
6 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of McElroy between 2000 and 2020, burning about 48 acres in total. 2 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 | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Sheridan County | FDH-MTLG34-349 |
| 27 July 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge | GOOSEWPA |
| 21 July 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 40 acres | Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge | GJESDAL WEST |
| 15 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Sheridan County | FDH-MTLG34-119 |
| 24 June 2020 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Sheridan County | FDH-MTLG34-92 |
| 17 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Sheridan County | FDH-MTLG34-41 |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 774007. 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.