Rumble Creek, Montana

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Winifred census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59489. The Survey maps it on the Winifred West quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Rumble Creek within Fergus County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 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.

1954 USGS Lewistown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Lewistown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Winifred West quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Rumble Creek (historical) between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,044 acres in total. 7 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
Natural	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
7 August 2020	Natural	1,036 acres	Fergus County	JUDITH RIVER ROAD 2
5 August 2004	Natural	1.5 acres	North Central Montana District	BROWNEE
3 August 2020	Natural	under an acre	Fergus County	JUDITH RIVER ROAD
23 August 2003	Natural	2.0 acres	North Central Montana District	DUTCHESS
12 August 2012	Natural	1.0 acres	North Central Montana District	BROWN
10 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northeastern Land Office	not named
22 June 1994	Natural	1.5 acres	North Central Montana District	ANDERSONBR
17 April 2001	Natural	2.0 acres	North Central Montana District	ANDERSON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fergus 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
Winifred	6.6 miles	7
Salt Creek (historical)	7.7 miles	8
Cone Butte (historical)	8.9 miles	8
Suffolk	10.1 miles	8
Judith (historical)	13.2 miles	8
Everson (historical)	14.4 miles	8
Christina	15.5 miles	8
Moulton	16.8 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1722907. 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.