BlockMountain View Colony, Montana
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Northwest Yellowstone census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59015. The Survey maps it on the Hay Basin South quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 printed sheetsMatched 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 Roundup quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Roundup quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Roundup quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Hay Basin South quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
12 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Mountain View Colony between 2002 and 2020, burning about 135 acres in total. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2013 | Natural | 26 acres | Billings Field Office | 21 MILE ROAD |
| 5 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southern Land Office | VAN SKY ROAD |
| 5 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southern Land Office | OSWALD ROAD & NORTH ROAD |
| 4 September 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Billings Field Office | HEAG ROAD |
| 28 July 2018 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Southern Land Office | FLOODED ISLAND |
| 27 June 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Billings Field Office | ACTON REC FIRE |
| 26 May 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Miles City Field Office | WARD |
| 20 May 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Billings Field Office | SKYVIEW |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Comanche | 5.7 miles | 10 | |
| Broadview | 8.5 miles | 6 | |
| Acton | 9.9 miles | 10 | |
| Rimrock | 18.5 miles | 11 | |
| Baseline | 19.8 miles | 11 | |
| Cameron Park | 20.1 miles | 11 | |
| Cline | 21.0 miles | 16 | |
| Billings Heights | 21.4 miles | 19 |
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 Q122548645 | The 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 2804322. 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.