Meltons, Montana

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.

• 1920 USGS Flathead Lake quadrangle1:125000
• 1956 USGS Wallace quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1960 USGS Wallace quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS Lake Mary Ronan quadrangle1:24000
• 1980 USGS Polson quadrangle1:100000
• 1982 USGS Lake Mary Ronan quadrangle1:24000
• 1994 USGS Lake Mary Ronan quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Meltons between 1992 and 2020, burning about 307 acres in total. 38 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Lake Mary Ronan
• Sipes
• Proctor
• Dayton
• Elmo

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Meltons: 8 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Iron, Copper, Silver, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Lake County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 794261. 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.