Silver City, Montana

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 1 record

• Silver City Cemeterylisted 2020

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 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
• 1960 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1975 USGS Elliston quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Silver City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 157 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 1 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Trinity (historical)
• Bald Butte
• Gloster
• Marysville
• Canyon Creek
• Gearing

Every fire recorded in Lewis and Clark County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Silver City: 4 past producers, 3 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Lead, Silver, Gold, Manganese, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Lewis and Clark County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Silver City in 10 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 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.

Every storm recorded in Lewis and Clark County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 801454. 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.

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.