Mobridge, Montana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Winifred census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59471. It stands on Armells Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hessler Ridge quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Mobridge within Fergus County

On record in Mobridge

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Fred Robinson Bridgelisted 2012 · 0.9 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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 Landusky quadrangle1:125000
1954 USGS Hessler Ridge quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Lewistown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Lewistown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Zortman quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

24 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Mobridge (historical) between 1994 and 2020, burning about 101 acres in total. 17 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	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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
20 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge	THE CAMP
14 September 1997	Natural	1.5 acres	Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge	BELLRIDGE
9 August 2006	Natural	20 acres	Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge	SALMALLA
7 August 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge	ROADSIDE
5 August 2020	Natural	under an acre	Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge	ELK
4 August 2009	Natural	under an acre	Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge	SANDFIDDLER
12 August 2010	Natural	11 acres	Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge	KNOX RIDGE
6 July 2010	Natural	under an acre	Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge	SKEETER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fergus 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
Little Crooked (historical)	10.3 miles	10
Rocky Point (historical)	12.9 miles	8
Carroll (historical)	16.6 miles	8
Box Elder (historical)	23.1 miles	8
Roy	24.8 miles	8
Valentine	25.3 miles	8
Woodhawk (historical)	28.3 miles	7
Fergus	28.6 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1722929. 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.