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Richland, Montana

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Opheim census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59260. It lies near Dolson Coulee. The Survey maps it on the Richland quadrangle. It stands 2,700 feet above sea level.

Richland within Valley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

5 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Richland between 2018 and 2020, burning about 462 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 use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
12 August 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution407 acresValley CountyFDH-MTLG20-223
12 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresDaniels CountyFDH-MTLG37-229
27 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined36 acresValley CountyFDH-MTLG20-87
25 July 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution6.5 acresValley CountyFDH-MTLG20-154
17 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use10 acresNortheastern Land Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Valley County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Richland: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Pumice. 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
Richland PumicitePumiceOccurrence

Every working recorded in Valley County

Storms near this place

2 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Richland in 2 storm reports between 1994 and 1996: 2 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1994HailRichland$500,000no account filed
June 1996HailRichland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Valley 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
Glentana10.7 miles7
Avondale (historical)12.9 miles7
Larslan18.4 miles7
Opheim19.0 miles7
Wild Rose (historical)20.1 miles7
Roanwood25.1 miles7
Baylor25.2 miles7
Midway (historical)28.2 miles7

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.

Wikipedia article on RichlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18390351The 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 775751. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.