Riceville, Montana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Belt census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59412. It lies near Nasen Coulee. The Survey maps it on the Riceville quadrangle.

Riceville within Cascade County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1890 USGS Fort Benton quadrangle1:250000
1892 USGS Fort Benton quadrangle1:250000
1897 USGS Fort Benton quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Riceville quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Belt quadrangle1:100000
1995 USGS Riceville quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Riceville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

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
30 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.2 acres	Helena - Lewis and Clark National Forest	DEAD COW
4 February 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	3.0 acres	Cascade County	HOUND CREEK
1 February 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Cascade County	SLUICE BOXES MA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cascade County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Riceville: 4 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
East Bench Deposit	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Occurrence
Goodman Deposit	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Occurrence
Riceville Gypsum Deposit	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Prospect
Unnamed Location	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Occurrence
Unnamed Location	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Cascade 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
Albright (historical)	4.7 miles	14
Michigan Settlement (historical)	7.3 miles	14
Blythe	8.2 miles	15
Evans	8.9 miles	12
Armington Junction	9.4 miles	15
Monarch	9.5 miles	16
Three Forks	9.5 miles	14
Pleasant Valley Colony	10.5 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 789562. 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.