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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.

Miles Crossing 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

18 since 1996

Regional 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 maintenance7
Natural4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony3

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 September 2007Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreSouthwestern Land Officenot named
15 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresSouthwestern Land Officenot named
15 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresSouthwestern Land Officenot named
29 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouthwestern Land Officenot named
28 August 1996Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestRED GATE
14 August 2015Naturalunder an acreSouthwestern Land OfficeHIGH RYE
14 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.8 acresSouthwestern Land Officenot named
10 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthwestern Land Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Silver Bow County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 30 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Clay Deposit Near Miles CrossingAggregate, Light WeightOccurrenceUnconsolidated Sediments
Clay Deposit Near the Tuxedo MineBrick ClayOccurrenceUnconsolidated Sediments
Fluorite MineFluorine-Fluorite, Gold, SilverProducerFluorite
Gavin PlacerFire Clay (Refractory)Producer
Gregson Hot SpringsGeothermalProducer
Mooney ClaimUranium, AntimonyOccurrence1952
Mooney ClaimUraniumOccurrence
Perry DepositBentoniteOccurrenceBentonite
Powder GulchTitanium, Iron, REE, Thorium, ZirconiumProspect
Prices GulchGold, Tungsten, REE, ThoriumOccurrence

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
Ramsay2.2 miles23
Silver Bow3.2 miles23
Durant3.5 miles21
Hackney3.8 miles21
Finlen3.9 miles21
Nissler4.5 miles23
Buxton4.8 miles16
Fairmont Hot Springs4.9 miles21

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.