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Mid Canon, Montana

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1976. It stands in the Cascade census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59421. It lies near Eagle Rock. The Survey maps it on the Mid Canon quadrangle.

Mid Canon within Cascade County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

140 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 140 fires within 5 miles of Mid Canon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,213 acres in total. 61 started naturally. 1 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
Natural61
Missing data/not specified/undetermined41
Debris and open burning17
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony6
Other causes2
Fireworks2
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Land Officenot named
7 September 2000Naturalunder an acreCentral Land Officenot named
6 September 2000Naturalunder an acreCentral Land Officenot named
6 September 1996Naturalunder an acreCentral Land OfficeWAGNER
5 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Land OfficeDEARBORN
5 September 2017Other causes16 acresCentral Land OfficeBIG PINE LANE
5 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresCentral Land Officenot named
5 September 2000Natural6.0 acresCentral Land Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cascade County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Mid Canon: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Calcium. 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
Lefevre RanchCalciumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Cascade County

Storms near this place

7 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mid Canon in 7 storm reports between 2007 and 2022: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2022Thunderstorm WindMid Canon-Mesonet station MTYEP MDT Gary Cooper Bridge in Dearborn reported 52 knot wind gust.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindMid Canon-Mesonet station at Gary Cooper bridge near Dearborn reports wind gust to 61 mph.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindMid Canon-Thunderstorm wind gust of 62 MPH near the MDT Dearborn sensor.
June 2018FloodMid Canon-Spotter reported flooding along Dearborn and Missouri Rivers. Water levels were highest he had ever seen. Flooding caused minor fence damage on his property.
September 2013HailMid Canon-Hail measuring 1.00 inches (quarter sized) was reported in the Dearborn, MT area.
May 2007HailMid Canon-A severe thunderstorm produced 1 inch diameter hail at Craig 6NNE.
May 2007HailMid Canon-Hail covering ground near Dearborn.

Every storm recorded in Cascade 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
Hardy5.7 miles12
Saint Peter11.9 miles13
Cascade13.8 miles15
Saint Clair (historical)15.0 miles15
Adel15.7 miles12
Riverdale21.5 miles15
Cascade Colony21.5 miles13
Fair Haven Colony23.2 miles16

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 Q122556975The 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 774134. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.