Miles Crossing, Montana
23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Butte-Silver Bow Northwest census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59748. It lies near McCleery Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Ramsay quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 23 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.
- 1889 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1893 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1899 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1903 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1947 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1959 USGS Butte North quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000
- 1989 USGS Ramsay quadrangle1:24000
- 1994 USGS Butte North quadrangle1:100000
- 1996 USGS Ramsay quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
18 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Miles Crossing between 1996 and 2020, burning about 25 acres in total. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 7 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2007 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Southwestern Land Office | not named |
| 15 September 2000 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Southwestern Land Office | not named |
| 15 September 2000 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.0 acres | Southwestern Land Office | not named |
| 29 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Southwestern Land Office | not named |
| 28 August 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | RED GATE |
| 14 August 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Southwestern Land Office | HIGH RYE |
| 14 August 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.8 acres | Southwestern Land Office | not named |
| 10 August 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southwestern Land Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 30 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of Miles Crossing: 12 occurrences, 6 unknowns, 5 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite, REE. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clay Deposit Near Miles Crossing | Aggregate, Light Weight | Occurrence | Unconsolidated Sediments | |
| Clay Deposit Near the Tuxedo Mine | Brick Clay | Occurrence | Unconsolidated Sediments | |
| Fluorite Mine | Fluorine-Fluorite, Gold, Silver | Producer | Fluorite | |
| Gavin Placer | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Producer | ||
| Gregson Hot Springs | Geothermal | Producer | ||
| Mooney Claim | Uranium, Antimony | Occurrence | 1952 | |
| Mooney Claim | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| Perry Deposit | Bentonite | Occurrence | Bentonite | |
| Powder Gulch | Titanium, Iron, REE, Thorium, Zirconium | Prospect | ||
| Prices Gulch | Gold, Tungsten, REE, Thorium | Occurrence |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ramsay | 2.2 miles | 23 | |
| Silver Bow | 3.2 miles | 23 | |
| Durant | 3.5 miles | 21 | |
| Hackney | 3.8 miles | 21 | |
| Finlen | 3.9 miles | 21 | |
| Nissler | 4.5 miles | 23 | |
| Buxton | 4.8 miles | 16 | |
| Fairmont Hot Springs | 4.9 miles | 21 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 787343. 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.











