Shambo, Montana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Havre census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59501. It stands on Shambo Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Bearpaw Lake quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Shambo within Hill County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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 Havre quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Havre quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Havre quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Shambo quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1984 USGS Bearpaw Lake quadrangle1:24000
1993 USGS Rocky Boy quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

116 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Shambo (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 584 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 22 were 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
Debris and open burning	41
Arson/incendiarism	22
Natural	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Fireworks	7
Other causes	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Rocky Boy's Agency	BUZZY
28 September 2007	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Rocky Boy's Agency	FRIEDE
27 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Rocky Boy's Agency	FALSE ALARM 5
17 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.5 acres	Rocky Boy's Agency	BIGSKY
12 September 2014	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Rocky Boy's Agency	POWER LINE
10 September 1994	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Rocky Boy's Agency	not named
1 September 1996	Misuse of fire by a minor	43 acres	Rocky Boy's Agency	MCDOOGAL
8 August 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Rocky Boy's Agency	SMALL BOY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hill 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
Shambo Springs	1.2 miles	10
Rocky Boy's Agency	8.2 miles	9
Azure	8.2 miles	9
Oscar (historical)	8.8 miles	10
Sangrey	9.4 miles	9
Saint Pierre	10.3 miles	10
Saddle Butte	15.4 miles	11
Laredo	15.5 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1744171. 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.