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Mountain Shadows Estates, Montana

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Stevensville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59870. It stands on South Swamp Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bing quadrangle.

Mountain Shadows Estates within Ravalli County

On record in Mountain Shadows Estates

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 12 of 31 shown

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

Every listing in Ravalli County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

47 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Mountain Shadows Estates between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,015 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 2 were 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
Debris and open burning22
Natural10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony6
Arson/incendiarism2
Fireworks1

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRavaIIi County203 CACTUS TRL
4 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBitterroot National ForestWARMING
25 September 2003Debris and open burning70 acresSouthwestern Land Officenot named
2 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreSouthwestern Land Officenot named
2 September 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouthwestern Land Officenot named
12 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreBitterroot National ForestKOOTENAI 2
4 August 2002Naturalunder an acreBitterroot National ForestST. MARY'S MILE 4
29 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined500 acresSouthwestern Land OfficeHIDDEN VALLEY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ravalli County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Mountain Shadows Estates: 6 occurrences, 5 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Pumice, Titanium, Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Garnet, Titanium, Metal, Thorium, Zirconium, Iron. 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
CurlewGold, Silver, Copper, Lead, ZincProducerPyrite
Main River ValleyIron, Titanium, Zirconium, ThoriumUnknown
Mccalla CreekTitanium, Iron, ZirconiumUnknown
Mccalla Creek Placer AreaGarnet, Titanium, Metal, Thorium, Zirconium, IronOccurrenceGarnet, Ilmenite, Magnetite, Monazite, Zircon
PlacerGoldOccurrence
Sharrot CreekTitanium, ThoriumUnknown
Silverthorn CreekTitanium, Zirconium, Iron, ThoriumUnknown
Strife ProspectTungstenOccurrence
Bitteroot ValleyPumiceUnknown
Unnamed LocationPumiceOccurrence

Every working recorded in Ravalli 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
Apple Blossom Court0.6 miles14
Stevensville0.9 miles14
Cinnabar Court1.0 miles17
Bitterroot Court2.6 miles14
Bing3.7 miles17
Bell Crossing4.1 miles17
Etna (historical)4.2 miles17
Bitter Root (historical)5.8 miles14

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 Q122564867The 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 1802987. 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.