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Siyeh Bend, Montana

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1968. It stands in the Glacier National Park census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59434. It lies near Piegan Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Logan Pass quadrangle.

Siyeh Bend within Glacier County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Siyeh Bend between 1996 and 2017, burning about 4,851 acres in total. 10 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
Natural10
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 August 2006Naturalunder an acreGlacier National ParkHEAVY RUNNER
6 August 2007Naturalunder an acreGlacier National ParkGOAT
31 August 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGlacier National ParkOUTBOUND
26 August 2011Naturalunder an acreGlacier National ParkHEAVY RUNNER
2 August 2001Naturalunder an acreGlacier National ParkHAYSTACK
17 August 2004Naturalunder an acreGlacier National ParkBIRD WOMAN
11 August 2017Naturalunder an acreGlacier National ParkPIEGAN
21 July 2015Natural4,850 acresGlacier National ParkREYNOLDS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Glacier County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Siyeh Bend: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper. 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
Cracker Lake MineCopperProspect

Every working recorded in Glacier 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
Swiftcurrent6.6 miles24
Altyn (historical)7.2 miles23
Rising Sun7.9 miles23
Cassidy Curve10.7 miles23
Saint Mary12.9 miles11
Babb16.4 miles10
Kiowa23.6 miles10
Douglas (historical)26.3 miles9

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 Q122573364The 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 776596. 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.