Pine Grove, Montana

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Fort Belknap census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59527. It lies near White Cow Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Hays quadrangle.

Pine Grove within Blaine County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1943 USGS Landusky quadrangle1:125000
1954 USGS Lewistown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Lewistown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1971 USGS Hays quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Zortman quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

263 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 263 fires within 5 miles of Pine Grove between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,620 acres in total. 30 started naturally. 10 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
Debris and open burning	70
Fireworks	36
Smoking	34
Natural	30
Misuse of fire by a minor	27
Recreation and ceremony	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Arson/incendiarism	10
Other causes	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3

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
9 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Fort Belknap Agency	PINE GROVE
9 September 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fort Belknap Agency	PLAYGROUND
6 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Fort Belknap Agency	3-BULL
3 September 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.0 acres	Fort Belknap Agency	ESSERT
3 September 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fort Belknap Agency	PINE GROVE
29 September 2004	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Fort Belknap Agency	HAYS DUMPS
29 September 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fort Belknap Agency	JUDY
28 September 2001	Smoking	under an acre	Fort Belknap Agency	CRAZY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Blaine County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Pine Grove: 2 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Blaine 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
Hays	1.0 miles	9
Dry Lake	4.0 miles	7
Lodge Pole	8.2 miles	7
Big Warm (historical)	12.4 miles	7
Cow Island (historical)	19.8 miles	11
Rattlesnake	20.6 miles	10
Power Plant (historical)	21.4 miles	10
Cleveland	31.2 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1722426. 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.