Ragland Bench, Montana

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1964. It stands in the Chinook census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59535. The Survey maps it on the Ragland Bench quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Ragland Bench within Blaine County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 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.

1954 USGS Lewistown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Lewistown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1964 USGS Ragland Bench quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Ragland Bench (historical) between 1994 and 2020, burning about 40 acres in total. 6 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
Natural	6

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
9 September 2005	Natural	30 acres	North Central Montana District	TREE
19 September 1994	Natural	2.0 acres	North Central Montana District	STAFFORD
30 August 1996	Natural	1.0 acres	North Central Montana District	LONE TREE
10 August 2009	Natural	2.0 acres	Malta Field Office	DWELLING
17 July 2012	Natural	under an acre	Malta Field Office	STAFFORD
25 June 2020	Natural	4.8 acres	North Central Montana District	LLOYD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Blaine 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
Golf Bench (historical)	5.0 miles	7
Hosey (historical)	6.3 miles	7
Leroy	8.5 miles	8
Riedel (historical)	14.2 miles	7
Sour Dough Flat (historical)	15.1 miles	7
Maddux	24.5 miles	8
Cow Island (historical)	26.3 miles	11
Power Plant (historical)	28.1 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1722423. 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.