Signal Butte, Montana

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Rosebud census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59327. The Survey maps it on the John Hen Creek quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Signal Butte within Rosebud County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 6 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.

1954 USGS Hardin quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Hardin quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Hardin quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS John Hen Creek quadrangle1:24000
1980 USGS Lame Deer quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

11 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Signal Butte (historical) between 2000 and 2020, burning about 7,891 acres in total. 11 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	11

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
25 September 2020	Natural	under an acre	Rosebud County	SAND COULEE
2 September 2000	Natural	375 acres	Miles City Field Office	WILD HORSE
4 August 2020	Natural	47 acres	Rosebud County	WILDHORSE
31 August 2017	Natural	6,643 acres	Miles City Field Office	SNIDER
16 August 2000	Natural	1.0 acres	Eastern Land Office	not named
4 July 2015	Natural	58 acres	Eastern Land Office	GOBBLERS KNOB
26 July 2016	Natural	2.0 acres	Southern Land Office	PINE RIDGE 1
26 July 2009	Natural	7.4 acres	Miles City Field Office	GOODMAN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rosebud 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
Lee (historical)	6.3 miles	6
Crain Place	6.6 miles	8
Sabra (historical)	10.7 miles	8
Brandenberg	11.3 miles	6
Hopsonville (historical)	14.5 miles	6
Colstrip	15.2 miles	6
Wood Place	16.4 miles	8
Rosebud	22.7 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1716741. 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.