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Sappington, Montana

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Three Forks census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59752. The Survey maps it on the Sappington quadrangle.

Sappington within Gallatin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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.

Fires near this place

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Sappington between 1998 and 2020, burning about 2,950 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
29 September 2020Railroad operations and maintenance1,962 acresMadison CountyANTELOPE
29 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRoosevelt County201065
29 August 1998Natural120 acresCentral Land OfficeGREER GULCH
19 August 1999Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestSNAKE
16 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use20 acresCentral Land Officenot named
15 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined679 acresCentral Land OfficeSAPPINGTON JUNCTION
11 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCentral Land Officenot named
11 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Land Officenot named

Every fire recorded in Gallatin County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Sappington: 7 past producers, 5 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum, REE, Mica, Limestone, Ultra Pure, Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ingleside QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerLimestone
Ingleside QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
La Hood Gypsum DepositGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Montana Talc CompanyTalc-SoapstonePlant
SappingtonMica, REE, Niobium (Columbium)ProducerFergusonite
Sappington Berrylium DepositBerylliumOccurrence
Sappington CanyonPhosphorus-PhosphatesUnknown
Sappington DepositNiobium (Columbium), Tantalum, REE, MicaOccurrenceFergusonite, Muscovite
Sappington Limestone QuarryLimestone, Ultra PurePast ProducerLimestone
Sappington Mica MineMicaUnknown

Every working recorded in Gallatin County

Storms near this place

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sappington in 1 storm report in 2014: 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2014FloodSappington-Emergency management reported snow-melt flooding of rural area causing road closures and surrounding some homes.

Every storm recorded in Gallatin 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Willow Creek6.8 miles21
Three Forks13.2 miles20
Jefferson (historical)14.0 miles20
Lower Madison (historical)15.6 miles20
Gallatin (historical)17.0 miles21
Carpenter17.4 miles21
Trident18.7 miles21
Logan19.0 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 776220. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.