BlockSheffield, Montana
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Miles City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59347. The Survey maps it on the Hathaway quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1954 USGS Forsyth quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Forsyth quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Forsyth quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Hathaway quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Forsyth quadrangle1:100000
- 1983 USGS Forsyth quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
8 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Sheffield between 1998 and 2020, burning about 388 acres in total. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 September 1998 | Natural | 100 acres | Miles City Field Office | MOON CREEK |
| 3 August 2020 | Natural | 8.4 acres | Custer County | STRIKE 3 |
| 13 August 2020 | Natural | 3.2 acres | Custer County | THEADE |
| 4 July 2017 | Fireworks | under an acre | Eastern Land Office | HATHWAY |
| 30 July 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Miles City Field Office | HATHAWAY |
| 25 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 184 acres | Custer County | SWEET PEA |
| 21 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 91 acres | Custer County | GREEN PEA |
| 27 May 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Eastern Land Office | WEST FORK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2025Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sheffield in 1 storm report in 2025: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2025 | Hail | Sheffield | - | Report from mping. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sadie (historical) | 2.4 miles | 9 | |
| Horton | 4.2 miles | 9 | |
| Paragon | 7.6 miles | 9 | |
| Moon Creek (historical) | 10.7 miles | 8 | |
| Ulmer | 11.2 miles | 9 | |
| Miles City | 16.7 miles | 9 | |
| Westwood Estates | 16.9 miles | 9 | |
| Etna (historical) | 21.5 miles | 8 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 776463. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.