Minot, Montana

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the South Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59230. It stands on Wheeler Coulee. The Survey maps it on the Wheeler quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Minot within Valley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1943 USGS Glasgow quadrangle1:125000
1954 USGS Glasgow quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Glasgow quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Glasgow quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Wheeler quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Glasgow quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Minot (historical) between 1994 and 2020, burning about 312 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
Natural	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Firearms and explosives use	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
1 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge	NATOUT1
9 August 2006	Natural	100 acres	Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge	VALLEY CO. ASSIST 2
31 August 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge	POWERHOUSE
15 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	26 acres	Valley County	FDH-MTLG20-272
24 July 2013	Natural	8.0 acres	Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge	HORSE PASTURE
30 June 2003	Natural	under an acre	Miles City Field Office	ARTZ COULE
19 June 1997	Natural	3.0 acres	Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge	BEACH#1
11 April 2014	Firearms and explosives use	4.0 acres	Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge	RUSSIAN MOOSE

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Wheeler	0.6 miles	9
Delano Heights (historical)	1.2 miles	11
Lakeview (historical)	1.3 miles	11
New Deal (historical)	2.6 miles	11
Square Deal (historical)	2.9 miles	11
Fort Peck	3.5 miles	11
Park Grove	3.7 miles	11
Free Deal (historical)	4.2 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1819629. 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.