Paxton, Montana

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Richey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59259. The Survey maps it on the Buffalo Creek NE quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Paxton within Dawson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 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 Glendive quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Glendive quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Glendive quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Buffalo Creek NE quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Paxton (historical) between 2017 and 2020, burning about 148 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	2

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
24 June 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	30 acres	Eastern Land Office	WHEELER
30 March 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	118 acres	McCone County	FENCE - MCCONE

Every fire recorded in Dawson 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
Corral Creek (historical)	12.7 miles	6
Richey	14.1 miles	5
Mink (historical)	20.0 miles	6
Bloomfield	27.1 miles	7
Lindsay	29.9 miles	6
Union (historical)	30.7 miles	6
Red Top	31.9 miles	7
Landtsheim (historical)	45.5 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1715352. 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.