Novary, Montana

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Grass Range census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59032. The Survey maps it on the Horsethief Coulee East quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Novary within Fergus County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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.

1941 USGS Judith Peak quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1944 USGS Judith Peak quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Lewistown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Lewistown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1978 USGS Lewistown quadrangle1:100000
1985 USGS Horsethief Coulee East quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

4 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Novary (historical) between 1996 and 2020, burning about 202 acres in total. 2 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	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
18 August 2013	Natural	1.3 acres	North Central Montana District	CHEADLE
17 August 1996	Natural	200 acres	North Central Montana District	FA 7
25 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fergus County	FDH-MTLG08-149
13 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fergus County	FDH-MTLG08-115

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fergus 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
Ayers Ranch Colony	4.8 miles	8
Forestgrove	5.4 miles	12
Chippewa (historical)	5.8 miles	8
Dryland (historical)	5.9 miles	8
Cheadle (historical)	6.1 miles	13
Becket	7.8 miles	6
Fords Creek Colony	8.0 miles	8
Skaggs (historical)	9.7 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1722918. 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.