Republic, Montana

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Klein census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59072. It lies near Deadman Coulee. The Survey maps it on the Roundup quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Republic within Musselshell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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 Roundup quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Roundup quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Roundup quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS Roundup quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

10 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Republic (historical) between 2006 and 2020, burning about 463 acres in total. 4 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	6
Natural	4

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 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Musselshell County	67 GRUBSTAKERD.
27 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.1 acres	Billings Field Office	CABIN
4 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14 acres	Southern Land Office	4TH
29 July 2014	Natural	102 acres	Billings Field Office	BENDER ROAD FIRE
23 July 2006	Natural	317 acres	Southern Land Office	JUNIPER
22 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Southern Land Office	RIVER WALK
22 July 2014	Natural	20 acres	Billings Field Office	PARADISE FIRE
19 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Southern Land Office	RED ROCK KLEIN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Musselshell 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
Klein	0.6 miles	6
Farralltown	0.8 miles	6
Gibbtown	1.2 miles	6
Riverside	2.7 miles	6
Roundup	2.9 miles	6
Camp Three	3.0 miles	6
Elso	8.3 miles	6
Gage	9.2 miles	6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1723198. 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.