Rumsey, Montana

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Philipsburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59858. The Survey maps it on the Philipsburg quadrangle.

Rumsey within Granite County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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.

1908 USGS Philipsburg quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1947 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1960 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Philipsburg quadrangle1:24000
1993 USGS Philipsburg quadrangle1:100000
1996 USGS Philipsburg quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

53 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Rumsey between 1992 and 2020, burning about 299 acres in total. 18 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	18
Recreation and ceremony	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Debris and open burning	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	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
4 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Southwestern Land Office	FLINT CREEK
2 September 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	ECHO LAKE CAMPFIRE
2 September 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	FLINT CREEK CG 2
2 September 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	FLINT CREEK CG
2 September 2006	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Southwestern Land Office	not named
12 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	FRANKLIN FIRE
1 September 2004	Natural	under an acre	Southwestern Land Office	not named
9 August 2020	Natural	under an acre	Granite County	GRANITE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Granite County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 213 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 213 workings within 5 miles of Rumsey: 113 past producers, 50 unknowns, 36 occurrences, 7 prospects. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Manganese, Silver, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Algonquin Mine	Silver, Manganese, Lead, Zinc, Copper	Past Producer	1865, 1878
Cadgie Taylor Mine	Silver, Zinc, Silica, Copper, Gold, Lead, Barium-Barite	Producer	Argentite, Cerargyrite, Chlorargyrite
Cadgie-Taylor Mine	Gold, Silver, Zinc, Lead, Copper	Past Producer
Clay Deposit Near Flint Creek	Brick Clay	Occurrence	Chlorite, Dolomite, Feldspar, Halloysite, Hematite, Kaolin, Quartz
Cliff Mine	Gold, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Copper	Past Producer
Contact Mining Custom Mill	Gold, Lead, Silver, Copper	Past Producer
Copper Jack Mine	Copper, Iron, Garnet	Occurrence
Dissett Mine	Phosphorus-Phosphates, Iron, Aluminum	Past Producer	1920, 1949
Flint Creek Mine	Gold, Silver, Bismuth, Tellurium	Past Producer	1906
Franklin Hill Iron Deposit	Silica, Manganese, Iron	Past Producer	1900, 1904

Every working recorded in Granite 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
Granite	1.8 miles	17
Clark (historical)	2.6 miles	15
Philipsburg	3.6 miles	15
Echo Lake (historical)	4.1 miles	16
Porters Corner	5.1 miles	15
Corral	9.7 miles	16
Princeton	9.8 miles	16
Tungsten	10.1 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 789851. 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.