Nelson, Montana

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Wolf Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59602. It stands on Bridge Creek. The Survey maps it on the Nelson quadrangle.

Nelson within Lewis and Clark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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.

1886 USGS Fort Logan quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1948 USGS White Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS White Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS White Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Nelson quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1965 USGS White Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Canyon Ferry Dam quadrangle1:100000
2001 USGS Nelson quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

78 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Nelson between 1992 and 2020, burning about 738 acres in total. 40 started naturally. 3 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
Natural	40
Recreation and ceremony	20
Debris and open burning	6
Arson/incendiarism	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Fireworks	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Other causes	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Smoking	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
8 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Lewis & Clark County	202123
6 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Lewis & Clark County	BEAVER CREEK FIRE
28 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Helena - Lewis and Clark National Forest	COTTONWOOD
27 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Helena - Lewis and Clark National Forest	BEAVER CR. CAMPFIRE
16 September 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Helena - Lewis and Clark National Forest	BULL RUN #2
6 August 2009	Natural	under an acre	Helena - Lewis and Clark National Forest	COCHRAN GULCH
30 August 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Helena - Lewis and Clark National Forest	BRIDGE GULCH
30 August 2001	Fireworks	under an acre	Helena - Lewis and Clark National Forest	BRIDGE GULCH #2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis and Clark 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
Old Weiss and French Place	6.1 miles	16
York	7.2 miles	19
Lakeside	9.7 miles	19
Vista	10.4 miles	14
Canyon Ferry	12.1 miles	18
Daytown (historical)	12.3 miles	18
Dennison (historical)	12.4 miles	18
Cavetown	12.6 miles	18

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 Q21551569

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 801213. 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.