Sloan, Montana

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1965. It stands in the Flathead Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59845. It stands on Little Bitterroot River. The Survey maps it on the Sloan quadrangle.

Sloan within Sanders County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 6 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.

1956 USGS Wallace quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Wallace quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Sloan quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

86 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Sloan between 1993 and 2020, burning about 12,684 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 7 were 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
Recreation and ceremony	58
Natural	11
Arson/incendiarism	7
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Debris and open burning	2
Fireworks	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
9 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Flathead Agency	FERRY 2
9 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Flathead Agency	FERRY ONE
2 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	7,038 acres	Lolo National Forest	BOYER
14 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Flathead Agency	MOIESE
9 August 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Flathead Agency	SLOAN2
8 August 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Flathead Agency	ROUNDBUTTE
7 August 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Flathead Agency	SLOANS
7 August 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Flathead Agency	SLOANS 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Blanchards Corner

Every fire recorded in Sanders County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Sloan: 3 unknowns, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Silver, Gold, Barium-Barite. 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	Recorded
Duston Copper Group	Copper, Silver, Gold	Occurrence	Chalcopyrite, Gold, Silver
Unnamed Barite	Barium-Barite	Occurrence
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 Sanders 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
Old Agency	11.4 miles	6
Agency	11.5 miles	6
Silíp	12.2 miles	6
McDonald	13.6 miles	6
Camas Prairie	14.9 miles	8
Perma	16.2 miles	8
Camas	19.4 miles	6
Hot Springs	19.7 miles	6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 776645. 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.