Shorey, Montana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the North Stillwater census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59067. The Survey maps it on the Hailstone Basin SE quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Shorey within Stillwater County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1889 USGS Big Snowy Mountain quadrangle1:250000
1893 USGS Big Snowy Mountain quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Roundup quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Roundup quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Hailstone Basin SE quadrangle1:24000
1993 USGS Harlowton quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

3 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Shorey (historical) between 2014 and 2019, burning about 201 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	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
28 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	60 acres	Stillwater County	HAILSTONE BASIN AND HOAGLAND RD
27 July 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	140 acres	Northeastern Land Office	PAINTED ROBE
16 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Northeastern Land Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Stillwater 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
Rapelje	11.1 miles	14
Busteed	16.3 miles	14
Molt	17.7 miles	10
Craver	30.4 miles	14
Springtime	30.4 miles	14
Columbus	31.7 miles	14
Park City	32.4 miles	10
Reed Point	34.7 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1726973. 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.