BlockSheffels, Montana
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1976. It stands in the Great Falls North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59404. The Survey maps it on the Northeast Great Falls quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 19 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1886 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1948 USGS Portage quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1949 USGS Portage quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Northeast Great Falls quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1976 USGS Great Falls North quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
6 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Sheffels between 1996 and 2017, burning about 299 acres in total. None 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 | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Central Land Office | BLACK EAGLE |
| 25 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Central Land Office | BLACK EAGLE |
| 1 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 175 acres | Central Land Office | BLACK EAGLE |
| 29 July 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 70 acres | Benton Lake National Wildlife Refuge | BLACK HORSE |
| 27 June 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Central Land Office | BLACK EAGLE |
| 16 December 1997 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 42 acres | Benton Lake National Wildlife Refuge | MUDDY CREEK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portage | 4.2 miles | 18 | |
| Rainbow | 4.7 miles | 19 | |
| Cooper | 5.1 miles | 19 | |
| Watson (historical) | 6.6 miles | 16 | |
| Salem | 7.1 miles | 18 | |
| North Great Falls (historical) | 7.3 miles | 16 | |
| Smelter Hill | 8.1 miles | 16 | |
| Boston Heights (historical) | 8.1 miles | 16 |
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 Q122552595 | 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 776462. 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.