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Silver Bow, Montana

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Butte-Silver Bow Northwest census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59750. It stands on Sand Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ramsay quadrangle.

Silver Bow within Silver Bow County

On record in Silver Bow

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 23 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

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Silver Bow between 1996 and 2020, burning about 199 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
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
28 August 1996Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestRED GATE
5 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestSOUP CAN
31 July 1996Natural1.0 acresBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestLONE TREE
16 July 2005Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestPOWDER GULCH
6 May 1998Railroad operations and maintenance195 acresCentral Land OfficeUP MMP 381
4 October 2020Recreation and ceremony2.8 acresBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestLONE PINE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Silver Bow County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 134 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 134 workings within 5 miles of Silver Bow: 65 past producers, 26 occurrences, 21 prospects, 13 unknowns. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Manganese, Silver, Gold, Manganese, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Best Hope MineGold, Lead, Manganese, Silver, ZincUnknown
Best Hope MineLead, Zinc, Manganese, Gold, SilverProducer
BluebirdSilver, Zinc, Manganese, LeadUnknown
Clay Deposit Near Miles CrossingAggregate, Light WeightOccurrenceUnconsolidated Sediments
Eagle BirdLead, Manganese, ZincProducerGalena, Sphalerite
Fluorite MineFluorine-Fluorite, Gold, SilverProducerFluorite
Gavin PlacerFire Clay (Refractory)Producer
Hibernia MineSilver, Gold, Manganese, Lead, ZincPast ProducerEnargite, Gold, Rhodochrosite, Sphalerite
Humbolt MineSilver, Manganese, Lead, Zinc, CopperPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Rhodochrosite, Sphalerite
Jewel MineGold, SilverOccurrence

Every working recorded in Silver Bow 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
Ramsay1.0 miles23
Nissler1.4 miles23
Miles Crossing3.2 miles23
Rocker3.3 miles23
Burlington (historical)4.0 miles23
Buxton4.8 miles16
Williamsburg5.9 miles17
Anselmo (historical)6.4 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 790495. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.