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Miles Crossing, Montana

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Hinsdale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59241. It lies near Farmer Coulee. The Survey maps it on the Hinsdale NW quadrangle.

Miles Crossing within Valley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Miles Crossing in 2018, burning about 1 acre in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
17 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNortheastern Land Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Valley 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
Beaverton6.7 miles9
Hinsdale7.0 miles9
Vandalia15.5 miles8
Genevieve (historical)16.9 miles6
Barr (historical)18.4 miles6
Larb (historical)20.0 miles7
Tampico21.1 miles9
Riverside (historical)26.6 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 774208. 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.