Slab Crossing, Montana

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the East Roosevelt census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59226. It sits by Rocky Point. The Survey maps it on the Rocky Point quadrangle.

Slab Crossing within Roosevelt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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.

1914 USGS Homestead quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Rocky Point quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1948 USGS Rocky Point quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Wolf Point quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Wolf Point quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Culbertson quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

18 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Slab Crossing between 1998 and 2020, burning about 290 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Natural	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
27 September 2000	Power generation/transmission/distribution	32 acres	Fort Peck Agency	N FT KIPP
13 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fort Peck Agency	SOUTH RANCH
31 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Fort Peck Agency	SWATTER
30 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	7.5 acres	Fort Peck Agency	TRIPLE SILO
27 August 2012	Natural	10 acres	Fort Peck Agency	N BROCKTON 3
2 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	23 acres	Fort Peck Agency	ANDERSON
12 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Fort Peck Agency	W. FROID
10 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fort Peck Agency	CASE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Boyd (historical)

Every fire recorded in Roosevelt County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Slab Crossing: 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Roosevelt 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Boyd (historical)	5.8 miles	7
Fort Kipp	9.8 miles	7
Blair	10.5 miles	7
Froid	11.2 miles	5
Calais	11.5 miles	9
Anderson	13.0 miles	7
Culbertson	13.8 miles	6
Brockton	14.9 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 776628. 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.