Red Top, Montana

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Richey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59315. It stands on North Fork Thirteenmile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Red Top quadrangle.

Red Top within Dawson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1909 USGS Glendive quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Glendive quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Glendive quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Glendive quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Red Top quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Glendive quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Red Top between 2016 and 2018, burning about 1,282 acres in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use	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
9 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1,192 acres	Eastern Land Office	WHEAT
20 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	90 acres	Eastern Land Office	MIDDLE - DAWSON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Bloomfield

Every fire recorded in Dawson 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
Bloomfield	5.6 miles	7
Stipek	15.9 miles	7
Intake	17.4 miles	7
Landtsheim (historical)	19.9 miles	7
Lufboro (historical)	20.7 miles	7
West Glendive	21.1 miles	8
Richey	21.2 miles	5
Forest Park	21.4 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 775665. 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.