BlockRising Sun, Montana
23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1968. It stands in the Glacier National Park census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59434. It stands on Rose Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rising Sun quadrangle. It stands 4,573 feet above sea level.
On record in Rising Sun
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 3 records
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Rising Sun Auto Camplisted 1996 · 0.1 miles away
Roes Creek Campground Camptender's Cabinlisted 1996 · 0.2 miles away
Rising Wolflisted 2016 · 0.5 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 23 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1904 USGS Chief Mountain quadrangle1:125000, 8 printings
- 1938 USGS Chief Mountain quadrangle1:125000, 8 printings
- 1960 USGS Cut Bank quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1963 USGS Cut Bank quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Cut Bank quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Rising Sun quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
16 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Rising Sun between 1994 and 2019, burning about 34,241 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 1 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 | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 August 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Glacier National Park | GOAT |
| 5 August 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Blackfeet Agency | SWAMP FIRE |
| 30 August 1998 | Natural | 15 acres | Glacier National Park | RED EAGLE |
| 30 August 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Glacier National Park | TWO DOG |
| 29 August 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Glacier National Park | 1913 |
| 11 August 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Glacier National Park | RISING SUN |
| 10 August 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Blackfeet Agency | GARDEN |
| 31 July 1996 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Glacier National Park | RED EAGLE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Mary | 5.7 miles | 11 | |
| Siyeh Bend | 7.9 miles | 23 | |
| Altyn (historical) | 9.1 miles | 23 | |
| Cassidy Curve | 9.2 miles | 23 | |
| Swiftcurrent | 10.6 miles | 24 | |
| Babb | 12.1 miles | 10 | |
| Kiowa | 16.6 miles | 10 | |
| Wetzel | 19.1 miles | 9 |
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 Rising Sun | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3433143 | The 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 775783. 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.