Pacific Junction, Montana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Havre census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59501. It lies near Black Butte. The Survey maps it on the Herron Park quadrangle.

Pacific Junction within Hill County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1904 USGS Assinniboine quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1912 USGS Thibedeau Lake quadrangle1:125000
1953 USGS Havre quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Havre quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Havre quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Herron Park quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Havre quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Pacific Junction between 2011 and 2020, burning about 26 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/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Fireworks	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
4 July 2020	Fireworks	under an acre	Hill County	FDH-MTLG12-108
19 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Hill County	FDH-MTLG12-69
18 July 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	25 acres	Benton Lake Wetland Management District	SANDS WPA
2 February 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Hill County	FDH-MTLG12-49

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hill 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 Pacific Junction: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Havre Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working 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
West Havre	1.6 miles	11
Beaver Creek	1.7 miles	11
Cypress (historical)	2.2 miles	11
Herron	2.4 miles	11
Havre	4.0 miles	11
Saddle Butte	6.5 miles	11
Burnham	6.7 miles	10
Laredo	10.8 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 775051. 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.