Russell, Montana

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Fort Benton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59442. The Survey maps it on the Russell Chapel quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Russell within Chouteau County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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 Shelby quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Shelby quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Russell Chapel quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Conrad quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Russell (historical) in 2017, burning about 350 acres in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use	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
31 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	350 acres	Northeastern Land Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Twin Hills Colony

Every fire recorded in Chouteau 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
Twin Hills Colony	3.3 miles	6
Genou (historical)	11.2 miles	6
Ashmoor (historical)	13.9 miles	6
Aznoe (historical)	15.6 miles	14
Woods Crossing	16.8 miles	14
Sunnybrook Colony	18.8 miles	6
Carter	20.3 miles	15
Tunis	21.2 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1750292. 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.