Salt Creek, Montana

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Hanover census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59451. It stands on Middle Fork Salt Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hilger NW quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Salt Creek within Fergus County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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
1978 USGS Lewistown quadrangle1:100000
1985 USGS Hilger NW quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Salt Creek (historical) between 1998 and 2017, burning about 46 acres in total. 3 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	3
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
18 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	North Central Montana District	SHRIMP
14 July 2007	Natural	29 acres	North Central Montana District	SALT CREEK
24 June 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	1.3 acres	Northeastern Land Office	not named
29 May 1998	Natural	15 acres	North Central Montana District	SALT CR

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
Cone Butte (historical)	3.8 miles	8
Suffolk	6.7 miles	8
Rumble Creek (historical)	7.7 miles	7
Winifred	9.2 miles	7
Christina	9.6 miles	8
Moulton	9.9 miles	8
Kendall (historical)	11.6 miles	8
Hilger	15.1 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1722938. 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.