Quebec, Montana

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the South of the Yellowstone census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59033. It stands on Bridger Creek. The Survey maps it on the Work Creek quadrangle. It stands 3,819 feet above sea level.

Quebec within Sweet Grass County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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.

1891 USGS Big Timber quadrangle1:125000
1893 USGS Big Timber quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Billings quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Work Creek quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Billings quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Billings quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Big Timber quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

20 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Quebec between 2003 and 2020, burning about 38,146 acres in total. 5 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/undetermined	10
Natural	5
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Debris and open burning	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
6 September 2003	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.3 acres	Southern Land Office	not named
4 September 2005	Natural	1,109 acres	Southern Land Office	MYSEE
8 August 2003	Natural	36,180 acres	Southern Land Office	HOBBLE FIRE
4 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Sweet Grass County	39 BRIDGER CREEK RD.
26 August 2018	Natural	under an acre	Southern Land Office	WORK CREEK
21 August 2017	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Southern Land Office	RAILROAD R.O.W
18 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Southern Land Office	MM 383.5
12 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Sweet Grass County	381 I90 REST AREA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Greycliff

Every fire recorded in Sweet Grass 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
Greycliff	7.1 miles	16
Sourdough	14.6 miles	15
Big Timber	17.4 miles	16
Knob Hill	21.8 miles	11
McLeod	24.6 miles	19
Carney	24.8 miles	16
Wormser (historical)	25.0 miles	18
Melville	30.3 miles	11

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 Quebec	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7269734	The 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 775511. 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.