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Sioux Crossing, Montana

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the North of the Yellowstone census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59011. It stands on Henry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kelly Hills quadrangle.

Sioux Crossing within Sweet Grass County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Sioux Crossing in 2020, burning about 13 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/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
4 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined13 acresSweet Grass County51 DUCK CREEK RD.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sweet Grass 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
Carney9.7 miles16
Wormser (historical)14.8 miles18
Big Timber15.5 miles16
McLeod15.9 miles19
Norwegian Settlement (historical)21.7 miles11
Melville22.2 miles11
Sourdough22.9 miles15
Greycliff25.5 miles16

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122568913The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 776576. 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.