Millegan, Montana

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Cascade census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59405. It stands on Coal Creek. The Survey maps it on the Millegan quadrangle.

Millegan within Cascade County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1886 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Millegan quadrangle1:24000
1976 USGS Great Falls South quadrangle1:100000
1995 USGS Millegan quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Millegan between 1996 and 2018, burning about 33 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Natural	2
Debris and open burning	1

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
7 August 1996	Natural	1.0 acres	Central Land Office	MOVING MACHINE
27 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Central Land Office	CASCADE FARMER
9 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Central Land Office	CASCADE FARMER
11 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Central Land Office	CASCADE FARMER
28 April 2018	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Helena - Lewis and Clark National Forest	SUNSET CLIFF
28 April 2018	Natural	under an acre	Central Land Office	not named

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 Millegan: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
	Manger Gypsum	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Unknown

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Adel	13.5 miles	12
Calvert	16.0 miles	11
Eden	18.0 miles	12
Evans	18.1 miles	12
Castner Falls	20.8 miles	12
Giffen	22.4 miles	14
Three Forks	23.3 miles	14
Truly	23.4 miles	12

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 Q122568091

The 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 787396. 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.