Oscar, Montana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Havre census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59501. The Survey maps it on the Shambo NE quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Oscar within Hill County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1953 USGS Havre quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Havre quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Havre quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Shambo quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1984 USGS Shambo NE quadrangle1:24000
1993 USGS Rocky Boy quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Oscar (historical) in 2018, burning about 2 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
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
13 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Northeastern Land Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Hill 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
Saddle Butte	7.1 miles	11
Shambo (historical)	8.8 miles	10
Shambo Springs	9.5 miles	10
Havre	9.6 miles	11
West Havre	10.6 miles	11
Herron	11.4 miles	11
Pacific Junction	12.1 miles	11
Azure	13.2 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1744176. 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.