Red Rock, Montana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Clark Canyon-Horse Prairie census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59725. It lies near Bell Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Red Rock quadrangle.

Red Rock within Beaverhead County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1955 USGS Dubois quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Dubois quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS Red Rock quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1987 USGS Lima quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Lima quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

10 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Red Rock between 2003 and 2020, burning about 3,087 acres in total. 3 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	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Debris and open burning	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
7 August 2006	Natural	2.5 acres	Central Land Office	not named
27 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Beaverhead County	CURRY CREEK
24 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Central Land Office	MM40
23 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	3,000 acres	Dillon Field Office	MAUER MOUNTAIN
31 July 2003	Natural	15 acres	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	MAUER
26 July 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Central Land Office	CLARK CANYON
23 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Beaverhead County	BIBLE CAMP
14 July 2007	Natural	64 acres	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	MAUER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Beaverhead 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
Armstead (historical)	5.5 miles	10
Kidd	7.7 miles	11
Grayling	10.1 miles	16
Dalys	12.9 miles	16
Dell	13.8 miles	12
Frenchie Place	14.9 miles	16
Grant	15.1 miles	11
Barretts	16.5 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 775656. 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.