BlockPrairie Dale, Montana
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Alzada-Boyes census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59324. It lies near Soft Water Draw. The Survey maps it on the Dead Boy Divide quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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 Ekalaka quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Ekalaka quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Ekalaka quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Ekalaka quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Dead Boy Divide quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Ekalaka quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
5 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Prairie Dale (historical) between 1996 and 2020, burning about 3,279 acres in total. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 August 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 acres | Miles City Field Office | FORD |
| 4 August 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Custer Gallatin National Forest | SMOKEY |
| 13 August 2006 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Miles City Field Office | HIEB |
| 16 June 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Eastern Land Office | DOUBLE CORRAL - POWDER RIVER |
| 12 October 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3,178 acres | Carter County | BOXELDER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pershing (historical) | 4.7 miles | 8 | |
| Elgin (historical) | 5.7 miles | 10 | |
| Belltower | 7.8 miles | 8 | |
| Chalk Buttes (historical) | 12.9 miles | 9 | |
| Ekalaka | 13.5 miles | 9 | |
| Ridgeway | 14.6 miles | 8 | |
| Beaver Flats (historical) | 14.6 miles | 9 | |
| Mill Iron | 18.5 miles | 9 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1688716. 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.