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Montana City, Montana

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Boulder census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59634. It lies near Clark Gulch. The Survey maps it on the East Helena quadrangle. 2,918 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,055 feet above sea level.

Montana City within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 21 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

186 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 186 fires within 5 miles of Montana City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 652 acres in total. 47 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined48
Natural47
Debris and open burning31
Recreation and ceremony24
Railroad operations and maintenance14
Equipment and vehicle use11
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks2
Other causes1
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

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
7 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreCentral Land OfficeCAIRN LN
7 September 1995Naturalunder an acreHelena - Lewis and Clark National ForestTUCKER GULCH/
6 September 2015Naturalunder an acreCentral Land OfficeSHINGLE BUTTE
30 September 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHelena - Lewis and Clark National ForestMCCLELLAN CREEK
30 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Land Officenot named
25 September 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHelena - Lewis and Clark National Forestnot named
2 September 2020Natural1.0 acresJefferson County267
2 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHelena - Lewis and Clark National ForestSTRAWBERRY BONFIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 48 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 48 workings within 5 miles of Montana City: 20 past producers, 12 occurrences, 6 unknowns, 5 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Limestone, General, Limestone, Dimension. 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
(Facility) East Helena Lead SmelterLead, Smelter, Sulfur, Sulfuric AcidPlant
Abc #1Thorium, UraniumOccurrenceTourmaline
Abc #1 PropertyUraniumProspect
Asarco Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Aurora MineGold, Copper, Silver, ZincOccurrence
Bompart HomesteadMicaOccurrence
C. E. S. Ballard, EtalUranium, ThoriumOccurrenceVein
Clark LeadLeadProspect
East Helena Plant AsarcoSilver, Lead, Gold, CopperPast Producer
Easy Money GroupGold, Copper, Silver, LeadPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson 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
Clancy5.8 miles19
Lewiston (historical)5.8 miles19
New Haven (historical)5.9 miles19
Alhambra6.6 miles19
Louisville7.5 miles18
Clasoil7.6 miles18
Jefferson City11.5 miles29
Corbin12.8 miles29

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.

Wikipedia article on Montana CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q960527The 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 787566. 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.