Saugus, Montana

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Terry North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59349. It stands on Batchelor Creek. The Survey maps it on the Zero quadrangle.

Saugus within Prairie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1953 USGS Miles City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Miles City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Miles City quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Zero quadrangle1:24000
1980 USGS Terry quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

5 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Saugus between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,264 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
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Debris and open burning	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 August 2000	Natural	15 acres	Eastern Land Office	not named
1 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Prairie County	ZERO - PRAIRIE
14 July 2016	Natural	2.8 acres	Miles City Field Office	ISLAND
16 February 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	545 acres	Miles City Field Office	CAMP CREEK
16 February 1995	Debris and open burning	700 acres	Eastern Land Office	FEBRUARY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Prairie 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
Zero	1.6 miles	8
Benz	2.3 miles	8
Blatchford	2.6 miles	8
Calypso	6.7 miles	8
Sutherland (historical)	11.1 miles	8
Terry	11.8 miles	8
McCloud	15.5 miles	8
Bluffport	19.2 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 776233. 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.