McRae, Montana

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Hardin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59038. It stands on East Fork Sarpy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Minnehaha Creek South quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

McRae within Big Horn County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1954 USGS Hardin quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Hardin quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Hardin quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Minnehaha Creek South quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Hardin quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

9 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of McRae (historical) between 2005 and 2020, burning about 2,686 acres in total. 5 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	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Debris and open burning	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
1 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Sweet Grass County	SHANKS BASIN WEST RD 1
1 September 2005	Natural	840 acres	Southern Land Office	not named
31 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Big Horn County	BOOTH SARPY BASIN RD.
3 August 2020	Natural	1,670 acres	Big Horn County	HORSE CREEK 2
12 August 2017	Natural	141 acres	Billings Field Office	SARPY CREEK
22 July 2016	Natural	15 acres	Southern Land Office	JONES
19 July 2016	Natural	under an acre	Southern Land Office	DOWNER RD
26 April 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Southern Land Office	1399 MOLT-RAPELJE RD

Every fire recorded in Big Horn 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
Sarpy (historical)	10.5 miles	6
Old Ford Place	18.0 miles	6
Dunmore	24.6 miles	12
Busby	25.1 miles	8
Foster	25.2 miles	11
Kingley	25.6 miles	11
Muddy	26.0 miles	7
Carperville (historical)	26.1 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1716507. 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.