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Sleeping Buffalo, Montana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Malta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59261. The Survey maps it on the Bowdoin quadrangle.

Sleeping Buffalo within Phillips County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Sleeping Buffalo between 1996 and 2018, burning about 36 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
26 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNortheastern Land Officenot named
20 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined33 acresBowdoin National Wildlife RefugeBEAVER
14 July 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresNortheastern Land Officenot named
28 June 2017Naturalunder an acreBowdin Wetland Management DistrictGATOR
18 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNortheastern Land Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Phillips 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
Ashfield3.3 miles9
Cree Crossing3.9 miles7
Cole5.1 miles8
Bowdoin7.5 miles10
Tattnall9.9 miles7
Saco10.0 miles9
East Malta Colony10.2 miles9
Bone Crossing10.9 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 800254. 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.