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Railroad Summer Home Area, Montana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the West Yellowstone census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59758. The Survey maps it on the Madison Arm quadrangle.

Railroad Summer Home Area within Gallatin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

104 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Railroad Summer Home Area between 1992 and 2019, burning about 4,188 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 2 were 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
Recreation and ceremony41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Natural13
Smoking9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Fireworks5
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
9 September 2016Naturalunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestCREAM
7 September 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestLITTLE
6 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestBAKERS HOLE
4 September 1998Other causesunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestSTATION
25 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestLAST
22 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestSEWAGE ROAD
21 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestJELLYBEAN
2 September 2015Naturalunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestBIRD DOG

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gallatin County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Railroad Summer Home Area: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Geothermal, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bakers Hole WellGeothermalProducer
Targhee Sulfur Warm SpringsGeothermalProducer

Every working recorded in Gallatin 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
Corette0.6 miles14
West Yellowstone2.3 miles13
Riverside4.0 miles13
Lakeshore Summer Home Area6.7 miles14
Lonesome Hurst Summer Home Area7.5 miles14
Romsett Summer Home Area7.8 miles14
Grayling10.6 miles12
Lakeview11.4 miles12

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.

Wikidata item Q122588886The 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 794898. 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.