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Proctor, Montana

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Woods Bay-Rollins census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59929. It stands on Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Proctor quadrangle. It stands 3,166 feet above sea level.

Proctor within Lake County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

93 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Proctor between 1992 and 2020, burning about 201 acres in total. 31 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
Natural31
Recreation and ceremony19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Debris and open burning10
Equipment and vehicle use8
Fireworks5
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1

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
6 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeBASIN MEADOW
5 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreNorthwestern Land Officenot named
4 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwestern Land Officenot named
22 September 2005Debris and open burning80 acresFlathead AgencyWALKING
20 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeNORTH DAYTON CREEK
2 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNorthwestern Land Officenot named
2 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNorthwestern Land Officenot named
19 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeBLACKTAIL HEIGHTS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Proctor: 8 occurrences, 2 prospects, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Lead, Lead, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc, 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
Chief Cliff MineLead, SilverOccurrenceVein
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
JumboSilver, Lead, CopperPast Producer
Jumbo MineSilver, Lead, Gold, CopperOccurrence1914
Mosher ProspectCopper, SilverOccurrence1910
Mosher ProspectCopperPast Producer
Silverstone MineCopper, Lead, Zinc, SilverOccurrenceVein
Unamed ProspectLead, Silver, Copper, QuartzProspect
Unnamed Building StoneStone, DimensionOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectLead, Silver, CopperOccurrence

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

1 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Proctor in 1 storm report in 2004: 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
August 2004HailProctor-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lake 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
Dayton2.3 miles9
Elmo4.9 miles9
Sipes5.1 miles10
Meltons5.4 miles10
Rollins5.7 miles8
Lake Mary Ronan5.9 miles10
Snowberg Court6.5 miles9
Big Arm6.5 miles9

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.

Wikipedia article on ProctorAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18344780The 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 789200. 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.