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Perma, Montana

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Flathead Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59859. It stands on Camas Creek. The Survey maps it on the Perma quadrangle.

Perma within Sanders County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

Fires near this place

98 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Perma between 1992 and 2020, burning about 32,932 acres in total. 46 started naturally. 13 were 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
Natural46
Recreation and ceremony20
Arson/incendiarism13
Equipment and vehicle use9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Fireworks1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2012Naturalunder an acreFlathead AgencyTHREE LAKES PEAK
6 September 2020Arson/incendiarism250 acresFlathead AgencySEEPAY RD
4 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlathead AgencyPAINTEDROC
22 September 2020Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresFlathead AgencyJALAPENO SEEPAY
13 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlathead AgencyVANDERBURG 1
12 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlathead AgencySEEPAY POST
10 September 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlathead AgencySEEPAY 2
10 September 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlathead AgencySEEPAY 3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sanders County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Perma: 3 unknowns, 3 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Copper, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cardiff MineSilver, LeadOccurrence
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
New Deal MineGold, Copper, SilverPast Producer
Perma Sill Nickel DepositNickelUnknown
Allen Property MineCopperPast Producer
New Deal MineCopperPast ProducerVein
Palin MineCopperOccurrenceVein
Palin MineCopperUnknown

Every working recorded in Sanders County

Storms near this place

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Perma in 1 storm report in 2007: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2007HailPerma-Emergency Management reported nickel size hail in Perma.

Every storm recorded in Sanders 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Knowles6.9 miles9
Camas Prairie6.9 miles8
McDonald7.1 miles6
Island City (historical)10.9 miles8
Paradise11.6 miles9
Quinns11.8 miles8
SilĂ­p14.7 miles6
Old Agency15.5 miles6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 788767. 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.

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.