Paris, Montana

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Circle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59214. The Survey maps it on the Flowing Well quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Paris within McCone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 7 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.

1954 USGS Jordan quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Jordan quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Jordan quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Jordan quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Flowing Well quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Jordan quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

4 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Paris (historical) between 2016 and 2019, burning about 151 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	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
8 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	4.7 acres	Miles City Field Office	FLOWING
8 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Eastern Land Office	FLOWING WELL
4 July 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	4.3 acres	Miles City Field Office	FOURTH
5 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	137 acres	Miles City Field Office	FLOWING WELL

Every fire recorded in McCone 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
White (historical)	6.6 miles	7
Watkins	15.5 miles	6
Coal Creek (historical)	17.3 miles	8
Brockway	21.0 miles	6
Weldon	26.3 miles	5
Circle	31.3 miles	6
Lower Summit	34.0 miles	7
Lost Creek (historical)	34.2 miles	5

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1716180. 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.