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Shay, Montana

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Winnett North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59087. The Survey maps it on the Ingals Dam quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Shay within Petroleum County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

Fires near this place

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Shay (historical) in 2005, burning about 1 acre in total. 1 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
Natural1

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
16 July 2005Natural1.0 acresNorth Central Montana DistrictJITNEY

Every fire recorded in Petroleum 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
Hoyle (historical)4.3 miles8
Jitney (historical)7.8 miles9
Cat Creek8.0 miles9
Winnett11.5 miles8
Weede (historical)16.3 miles9
Dovetail (historical)18.8 miles8
Flatwillow21.1 miles6
Kelley21.4 miles6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1721626. 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.