BlockRacine Ford, Montana
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Augusta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59410. The Survey maps it on the Nilan Reservoir 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
9 surveys from 12 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.
- 1903 USGS Coopers Lake quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Choteau quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Choteau quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Choteau quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Choteau quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Nilan Reservoir quadrangle1:24000
- 1976 USGS Choteau quadrangle1:250000
- 1993 USGS Dearborn River quadrangle1:100000
- 1995 USGS Nilan Reservoir quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
4 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Racine Ford (historical) between 2011 and 2020, burning about 77 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Helena - Lewis and Clark National Forest | BIRTHDAY |
| 4 August 2019 | Natural | 3.8 acres | Helena - Lewis and Clark National Forest | MCCARTY HILL |
| 29 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Lewis & Clark County | YOUNG RANCH MA |
| 25 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 43 acres | Lewis & Clark County | SMITH CREEK M.A. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Split Rock Junction | 7.3 miles | 11 | |
| Stoner Place | 8.0 miles | 19 | |
| Augusta | 10.4 miles | 10 | |
| Gilman | 11.9 miles | 11 | |
| Frost (historical) | 12.9 miles | 13 | |
| Clemons (historical) | 15.1 miles | 10 | |
| Packers | 15.9 miles | 13 | |
| Upper Ellis Place | 17.4 miles | 10 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1789295. 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.