Moores, Montana

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the East Powder River census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59317. It stands on Ernest Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lonesome Peak quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Moores within Powder River County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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.

1954 USGS Ekalaka quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Ekalaka quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Ekalaka quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Ekalaka quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Lonesome Peak quadrangle1:24000
1980 USGS Broadus quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

23 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Moores (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 934 acres in total. 22 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	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
2 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	Miles City Field Office	ERNEST
16 September 2010	Natural	44 acres	Miles City Field Office	WILDFLOWER
25 August 2009	Natural	47 acres	Miles City Field Office	MILLER
24 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Miles City Field Office	WILSON
2 August 2017	Natural	76 acres	Miles City Field Office	CACHE CREEK
19 August 2000	Natural	3.0 acres	Miles City Field Office	FLOOD CRK
18 August 1996	Natural	1.5 acres	Miles City Field Office	CHERRY
17 August 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Miles City Field Office	BUTTERMILK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Powder River 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
Bay Horse	15.6 miles	8
Epsie	15.7 miles	8
Broadus	15.7 miles	8
Sonnette	15.9 miles	10
Biddle	18.0 miles	8
Olive	19.8 miles	7
Moorhead	20.2 miles	8
Sayle	21.3 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1721486. 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.