Selmes, Montana

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Roberts census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59070. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cooney Reservoir quadrangle.

Selmes within Carbon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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.

1932 USGS Red Lodge No 1 quadrangle1:48000
1954 USGS Billings quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Cooney Reservoir quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Billings quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Billings quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1989 USGS Red Lodge quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

23 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Selmes between 1998 and 2020, burning about 2,210 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined	13
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Debris and open burning	1
Fireworks	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
28 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Carbon County	SPLICE
14 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Carbon County	22 VICTORY RD
6 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Carbon County	19-8610
4 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	3.2 acres	Southern Land Office	DOT.COM
31 August 1998	Natural	2,000 acres	Miles City Field Office	CHERRY SPG
3 August 2018	Natural	under an acre	Southern Land Office	COONEY RIDGE
1 August 2016	Natural	12 acres	Billings Field Office	ELBOW CREEK
4 July 2008	Fireworks	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	ZIMMERMAN MUTUAL AID

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carbon 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
Roberts	2.9 miles	10
Boyd	5.7 miles	11
Fox	9.1 miles	10
Cherry Springs (historical)	9.6 miles	10
Joliet	10.7 miles	10
Coalville (historical)	11.1 miles	10
Fromberg	12.0 miles	10
Bridger	13.3 miles	10

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.

Wikidata item Q122548614

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 806972. 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.