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Pierce Crossing, Montana

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Blackfeet Reservation East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59486. It stands on Blacktail Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kuka Crossing quadrangle.

Pierce Crossing within Pondera County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

14 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Pierce Crossing between 1993 and 2019, burning about 113 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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 use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1
Debris and open burning1
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
16 September 2009Smoking2.0 acresBlackfeet AgencyCIGARETTE FIRE
7 August 2005Naturalunder an acreBlackfeet AgencyPONY RD
4 August 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution3.6 acresBlackfeet AgencyGOLD ROAD FIRE
22 August 2016Equipment and vehicle use97 acresBlackfeet AgencyHOOT
5 July 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresBlackfeet AgencyBADGER CK
3 July 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreBlackfeet Agency091 FIRE
27 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBlackfeet AgencySILVER LANE FIRE
22 July 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresBlackfeet AgencyKUKA FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pondera 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
Kingsbury Colony3.1 miles12
Robere (historical)3.6 miles12
Aubrey Crossing4.2 miles12
Kuka Crossing5.6 miles12
Birch Creek Colony7.0 miles12
Hagans Crossing7.8 miles11
Pondera Colony7.9 miles12
Edwards Crossing8.5 miles12

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122559033The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 775215. 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.