Smelter Hill, Montana

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.

• 1886 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1949 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:62500
• 1951 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1957 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Northwest Great Falls quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1976 USGS Great Falls North quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Smelter Hill between 2000 and 2019, burning about 329 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Black Eagle
• Little Chicago (historical)
• North Great Falls (historical)
• Boston Heights (historical)
• Countryside Village
• Gibson Flats

Every fire recorded in Cascade County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Smelter Hill: 2 producers, 2 unknowns, 2 occurrences, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Copper, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Cascade County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1819585. 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.