Slayton Junction, Montana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Ryegate census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59046. It stands on Ninemile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cushman quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Slayton Junction within Golden Valley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1889 USGS Big Snowy Mountain quadrangle1:250000
1893 USGS Big Snowy Mountain quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Roundup quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Roundup quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Cushman quadrangle1:24000
1993 USGS Harlowton quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

4 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Slayton Junction (historical) between 2005 and 2018, burning about 621 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	2
Natural	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
7 August 2005	Natural	295 acres	Northeastern Land Office	not named
28 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	200 acres	Southern Land Office	WOMAN'S POCKET
19 July 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	100 acres	Northeastern Land Office	COLSON
31 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	26 acres	Southern Land Office	GOLDEN VALLEY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Golden Valley 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
Cushman	1.2 miles	11
Belmont	6.0 miles	7
Lavina	6.6 miles	6
Ryegate	10.5 miles	11
Golden Valley Colony	11.6 miles	11
Franklin	12.0 miles	11
Dodgetown (historical)	15.9 miles	11
Seventynine (historical)	15.9 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 776634. 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.