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Romsett Summer Home Area, Montana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the West Yellowstone census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59758. It stands on South Fork Madison River. The Survey maps it on the Madison Arm quadrangle.

Romsett Summer Home Area within Gallatin County

On record in Romsett Summer Home Area

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 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

54 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Romsett Summer Home Area between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,874 acres in total. 9 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
Recreation and ceremony22
Natural9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Fireworks3
Debris and open burning2
Smoking2

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
5 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestCONTOUR
30 September 1999Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresCuster Gallatin National ForestTARGHEE
19 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCuster Gallatin National Forestnot named
17 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestLATE NIGHT
15 September 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestVALENTINE
15 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestSOUTH FORK POWERLINE
1 September 2012Naturalunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestHORSE BUTTE
9 August 2003Naturalunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestDENNY CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gallatin County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Romsett Summer Home Area: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Geothermal, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Fluorine-Fluorite, Uranium, Vanadium, Nickel, Chromium, REE. 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
Madison Range DistrictPhosphorus-Phosphates, Fluorine-Fluorite, Uranium, Vanadium, Nickel, Chromium, REEPast ProducerBEDS
Targhee Sulfur Warm SpringsGeothermalProducer

Every working recorded in Gallatin 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
Lonesome Hurst Summer Home Area0.4 miles14
Lakeshore Summer Home Area1.5 miles14
Lakeview4.2 miles12
Grayling4.9 miles12
Railroad Summer Home Area7.8 miles14
Corette8.2 miles14
West Yellowstone9.2 miles13
Riverside10.7 miles13

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.

Wikidata item Q122568463The 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 794876. 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.