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Meaderville, Montana

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Butte census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59701. It stands on Yankee Doodle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Butte North quadrangle.

Meaderville within Silver Bow County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 23 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.

Fires near this place

13 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Meaderville between 1996 and 2019, burning about 5 acres in total. 7 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
Natural7
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 August 2000Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestMOLTEN RES
4 August 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestPENNY
26 August 2011Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestELK PARK
24 August 2012Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestELK PARK
23 August 2007Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestMARY EMMEE
17 August 1996Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestHAIL COLUMBIA
22 July 2011Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestHANEY
2 July 2016Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestSADDLE ROCK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Silver Bow County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 334 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 334 workings within 5 miles of Meaderville: 185 past producers, 58 prospects, 46 occurrences, 23 unknowns. 22 still produce. What was taken out: Manganese, Silver, Copper, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ajax MineSilica, Copper, Gold, SilverUnknown
Alice MineSilver, Gold, Zinc, Lead, Manganese, BerylliumPast Producer1960
Belmont MineCopper, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Gold, ArsenicPast Producer1957
Black Rock MineSilver, Zinc, Lead, ManganeseProducerRhodochrosite, Rhodonite, Sphalerite
Bonanza LodeCopper, Gold, Cobalt, Zinc, SilverUnknown
Bullwhacker MineMolybdenum, CopperOccurrence
Butte DistrictLead, Zinc, Manganese, Silver, Copper, Gold, Tellurium, Sulfur, Cadmium, Selenium, Calcium, BismuthProducer1880
Butte, Veins (Anaconda)Copper, Silver, Gold, Bismuth, Cadmium, Manganese, Zinc, Lead, Selenium, TelluriumPast Producer1875, 1880, 2000
Carver TailingsCopper, Silver, Lead, Zinc, GoldOccurrence
Carver TailingsGold, Zinc, Lead, Silver, CopperPast Producer

Every working recorded in Silver Bow 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
McQueen0.5 miles28
East Butte0.9 miles28
Silver Bow Park1.6 miles28
Centerville1.6 miles23
Allendale (historical)1.7 miles23
North Walkerville (historical)1.7 miles23
Walkerville1.8 miles23
Butchertown (historical)1.9 miles23

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122541650The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 802141. 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.