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Shambo Springs, 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 lies near Shambo Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Bearpaw Lake quadrangle.

Shambo Springs within Hill County

On record in Shambo Springs

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

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.

Fires near this place

216 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 216 fires within 5 miles of Shambo Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 981 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 36 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 burning88
Arson/incendiarism36
Misuse of fire by a minor21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Natural16
Fireworks16
Equipment and vehicle use7
Other causes5
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Firearms and explosives use1

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
9 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresRocky Boy's AgencyTENDOY
9 September 2005Naturalunder an acreRocky Boy's AgencySTRIKE
4 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreRocky Boy's AgencyBUZZY
4 September 1996Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreRocky Boy's AgencySAM
28 September 2007Debris and open burning2.5 acresRocky Boy's AgencyFRIEDE
27 September 2007Naturalunder an acreRocky Boy's AgencyFALSE ALARM 5
2 September 1995Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreRocky Boy's AgencyBIRD
17 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRocky Boy's AgencyGOLF BALL

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Shambo (historical)1.2 miles10
Rocky Boy's Agency7.0 miles9
Azure7.1 miles9
Sangrey8.2 miles9
Saint Pierre9.1 miles10
Oscar (historical)9.5 miles10
Laredo15.0 miles10
Saddle Butte15.9 miles11

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 Q122549730The 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 802193. 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.