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.
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.
- Ramsay Historic Districtlisted 1988 · 0.9 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 23 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.
- 1889 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1893 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1899 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1903 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1947 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1959 USGS Butte North quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000
- 1989 USGS Ramsay quadrangle1:24000
- 1994 USGS Butte North quadrangle1:100000
- 1996 USGS Ramsay quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
6 since 1996Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 August 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | RED GATE |
| 5 July 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | SOUP CAN |
| 31 July 1996 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | LONE TREE |
| 16 July 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | POWDER GULCH |
| 6 May 1998 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 195 acres | Central Land Office | UP MMP 381 |
| 4 October 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.8 acres | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | LONE PINE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 134 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best Hope Mine | Gold, Lead, Manganese, Silver, Zinc | Unknown | ||
| Best Hope Mine | Lead, Zinc, Manganese, Gold, Silver | Producer | ||
| Bluebird | Silver, Zinc, Manganese, Lead | Unknown | ||
| Clay Deposit Near Miles Crossing | Aggregate, Light Weight | Occurrence | Unconsolidated Sediments | |
| Eagle Bird | Lead, Manganese, Zinc | Producer | Galena, Sphalerite | |
| Fluorite Mine | Fluorine-Fluorite, Gold, Silver | Producer | Fluorite | |
| Gavin Placer | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Producer | ||
| Hibernia Mine | Silver, Gold, Manganese, Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | Enargite, Gold, Rhodochrosite, Sphalerite | |
| Humbolt Mine | Silver, Manganese, Lead, Zinc, Copper | Past Producer | Chalcopyrite, Galena, Rhodochrosite, Sphalerite | |
| Jewel Mine | Gold, Silver | Occurrence |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ramsay | 1.0 miles | 23 | |
| Nissler | 1.4 miles | 23 | |
| Miles Crossing | 3.2 miles | 23 | |
| Rocker | 3.3 miles | 23 | |
| Burlington (historical) | 4.0 miles | 23 | |
| Buxton | 4.8 miles | 16 | |
| Williamsburg | 5.9 miles | 17 | |
| Anselmo (historical) | 6.4 miles | 23 |
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.











