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Prison Farm, Montana

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Deer Lodge census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59722. It stands on Peterson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Deer Lodge quadrangle.

Prison Farm within Powell County

On record in Prison Farm

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 8 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 22 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 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Prison Farm between 1992 and 2018, burning about 70 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
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
24 September 2018Railroad operations and maintenance4.2 acresGrant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic SiteRAILROAD II
6 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresSouthwestern Land Officenot named
31 August 1998Railroad operations and maintenance1.5 acresSouthwestern Land OfficeFRONTAGE ROAD
31 July 2006Equipment and vehicle use2.8 acresSouthwestern Land Officenot named
22 July 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGrant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic SiteGRAVEL PIT FIRE
2 July 2012Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGrant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic SiteRAILROAD 2
2 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresGrant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic SiteRAILROAD 3-6
12 July 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthwestern Land OfficeBECK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Powell County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Prison Farm: 5 occurrences, 1 past producer, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Pumice, Gold, Silver, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Caribou CreekGoldPast ProducerPlacer
Champion Tailings MineSilverUnknown
Deer Lodge ManganeseManganeseProspect
Mastodon Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
South Deer Lodge Pumice DepositPumiceOccurrencePumice
Taylor Creek AshPumiceOccurrence
Unnamed PumicePumiceOccurrence
Unnamed PumicePumiceOccurrence
Unnamed PumicePumiceOccurrence

Every working recorded in Powell 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
Deer Lodge0.8 miles22
Racetrack7.4 miles22
Emery (historical)8.1 miles22
Garrison10.5 miles22
Bradley (historical)13.2 miles23
Pioneer15.2 miles23
Wall City15.5 miles23
Lingenpolter16.1 miles23

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 Q122554446The 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 794192. 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.