Sears, Montana

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Savage-Crane census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59262. It stands on Sears Creek. The Survey maps it on the Crane quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Sears within Richland County

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.

1909 USGS Glendive quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Glendive quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Glendive quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Glendive quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Crane quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Sidney quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Sears (historical) in 2016, burning about 14 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

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
2 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	Eastern Land Office	MCKEAN - MCCONE
2 September 2016	Natural	14 acres	Eastern Land Office	DENWOODY - MCCONE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Richland 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
Hoffmanville	2.2 miles	7
Midway	2.4 miles	7
Crane	2.8 miles	7
Piche	5.6 miles	7
Savage	6.7 miles	8
Knife River	6.8 miles	8
Newlon Junction	9.5 miles	8
Riverview	11.0 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1714947. 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.