Sand Springs, Montana

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the South Garfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59077. The Survey maps it on the Sand Springs quadrangle. It stands 3,192 feet above sea level.

Sand Springs within Garfield County

On record in Sand Springs

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Hornaday Camplisted 1991

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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 Jordan quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Jordan quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Jordan quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Jordan quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Sand Springs quadrangle1:24000
1993 USGS Sand Springs quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

7 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Sand Springs between 2000 and 2020, burning about 609 acres in total. 2 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	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Natural	2

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
9 August 2000	Natural	1.0 acres	Miles City Field Office	BARN
6 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.7 acres	Miles City Field Office	HIGHWAY 200
30 August 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	48 acres	Miles City Field Office	SAND SPRINGS
30 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Miles City Field Office	WOODPECKER
24 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	428 acres	Miles City Field Office	SNOW BELT
11 August 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	130 acres	Miles City Field Office	O DAY
23 May 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Garfield County	DUGOUT - GARFIELD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Garfield 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
Tindall (historical)	8.0 miles	7
Edwards	8.5 miles	7
Chimney Crossing	9.2 miles	7
Bruce (historical)	10.9 miles	7
Alice (historical)	11.7 miles	8
Anad (historical)	11.9 miles	7
McTwiggan (historical)	13.5 miles	7
Steve Forks	14.2 miles	7

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Sand Springs	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7415879	The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 776203. 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.