BlockOrinoco, Montana
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the North of the Yellowstone census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59327. The Survey maps it on the Orinoco quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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 Forsyth quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Forsyth quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Forsyth quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Orinoco quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Forsyth quadrangle1:100000
- 1983 USGS Forsyth quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
7 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Orinoco between 1996 and 2020, burning about 37 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1996 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Eastern Land Office | WINDY RIDGE |
| 13 September 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Eastern Land Office | SAFFLOWER |
| 29 August 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Eastern Land Office | I94 MM95 |
| 25 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 acres | Rosebud County | ODEER - ROSEBUD |
| 30 June 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Rosebud County | I94 MM98 - ROSEBUD |
| 23 June 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Rosebud County | AIRPORT - ROSEBUD |
| 30 May 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.8 acres | Eastern Land Office | WILDCAT |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Orinoco in 2 storm reports in 2010: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flynn | 2.7 miles | 9 | |
| Porcupine (historical) | 3.6 miles | 9 | |
| Forsyth | 5.0 miles | 9 | |
| Albright (historical) | 5.6 miles | 8 | |
| Cartersville | 6.6 miles | 8 | |
| Rosebud | 7.9 miles | 8 | |
| Cold Spring | 8.9 miles | 9 | |
| Nichols | 12.1 miles | 9 |
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 Q122543722 | 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 774981. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.