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Number Seven, Montana

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1976. It stands in the Eden-Stockett census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59472. It lies near Sand Coulee. The Survey maps it on the Southeast Great Falls quadrangle.

Number Seven within Cascade County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Number Seven between 1995 and 2017, burning about 118 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
8 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresBenton Lake National Wildlife RefugeBOOTLEGGER
30 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Land OfficeSAND COULEE
23 July 2017Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresCentral Land OfficeSAND COULEE
25 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Land OfficeSAND COULEE
25 April 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined66 acresBenton Lake National Wildlife RefugeOUTLET
23 April 1996Debris and open burning40 acresBenton Lake National Wildlife Refuge4A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cascade County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Number Seven: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Sand Coulee ItIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Cascade 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
Tracy0.7 miles16
Sand Coulee0.9 miles16
Centerville1.1 miles16
Stockett3.3 miles14
Gerber3.3 miles16
Big Stone Colony3.5 miles16
Box Elder (historical)5.0 miles15
Fields5.7 miles16

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 Q122571640The 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 802156. 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.