BlockOld Ford Place, Montana
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Hardin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59034. The Survey maps it on the Dudley Spring quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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 Hardin quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Hardin quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Hardin quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Dudley Spring quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Hardin quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
12 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Old Ford Place between 1998 and 2020, burning about 6,481 acres in total. 7 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 | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Big Horn County | N. DRY CREEK ROAD |
| 6 August 2015 | Natural | 70 acres | Billings Field Office | POWERLINE |
| 4 August 2008 | Natural | 7.0 acres | Crow Agency | SHARP |
| 3 August 2012 | Natural | 30 acres | Crow Agency | BRANT |
| 15 August 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southern Land Office | 633 SINDERLAR |
| 13 August 2018 | Natural | 570 acres | Southern Land Office | CABIN |
| 1 August 2016 | Natural | 2,600 acres | Southern Land Office | NORTH TULLOCK |
| 4 July 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.7 acres | Southern Land Office | WAR FIELD |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Foster | 7.2 miles | 11 | |
| Kingley | 7.7 miles | 11 | |
| Carperville (historical) | 8.9 miles | 11 | |
| Hardin | 14.4 miles | 12 | |
| Dunmore | 15.7 miles | 12 | |
| McRae (historical) | 18.0 miles | 6 | |
| Rowley | 20.8 miles | 10 | |
| Crow Agency | 20.9 miles | 7 |
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 Q122562184 | 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 774925. 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.