Rowley, Montana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Hardin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59034. The Survey maps it on the Rowley quadrangle.

Rowley within Big Horn County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1894 USGS Fort Custer quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Hardin quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Hardin quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Hardin quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Rowley quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Hardin quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Rowley between 1996 and 2020, burning about 4,455 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
18 August 2007	Natural	2.0 acres	Crow Agency	COTTONWOOD CRK
18 August 2007	Natural	60 acres	Crow Agency	TORSKE
6 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Southern Land Office	852 INDIAN CREEK RD.
31 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	Big Horn County	RANDELL RD.
31 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Big Horn County	TORSKE OVERPASS
3 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Southern Land Office	BIGHORN 364
25 July 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	83 acres	Crow Agency	SOUTH FORK COULE
22 July 1996	Railroad operations and maintenance	4,290 acres	Crow Agency	LASTSTAND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Big Horn 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
Toluca	5.3 miles	10
Hardin	8.7 miles	12
Carperville (historical)	12.4 miles	11
Corinth	13.4 miles	11
Dunmore	14.7 miles	12
Kingley	15.0 miles	11
Foster	16.8 miles	11
Saint Xavier	18.5 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 778777. 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.