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Purewater, Montana

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the South Garfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59312. The Survey maps it on the Hedstrom Lake NW quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Purewater within Garfield County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 7 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

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Purewater (historical) in 2019, burning under an acre 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
3 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGarfield CountyUALL - GARFIELD

Every fire recorded in Garfield 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
Watson Flats (historical)9.7 miles7
Van Norman12.2 miles7
Allen (historical)16.9 miles7
Keplerville (historical)21.2 miles7
Hillside23.2 miles8
Cohagen23.4 miles8
Phon (historical)26.9 miles8
Freedom (historical)34.9 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1715962. 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.