BlockSourdough, Montana
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the North of the Yellowstone census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59011. The Survey maps it on the Ryan Creek quadrangle. It stands 4,662 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1891 USGS Big Timber quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Big Timber quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Billings quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Ryan Creek quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Billings quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Billings quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Big Timber quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
7 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Sourdough between 2001 and 2020, burning about 869 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined | 5 |
| Natural | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Stillwater County | 1817 MOLT RD |
| 4 August 2001 | Natural | 867 acres | Southern Land Office | WEIGEN |
| 1 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southern Land Office | SOURDOUGH RD |
| 9 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southern Land Office | TIN CAN |
| 9 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southern Land Office | OTTER |
| 11 May 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Southern Land Office | SAM'S TREE |
| 11 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sweet Grass County | HOWIE ROAD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Timber | 8.8 miles | 16 | |
| Greycliff | 9.7 miles | 16 | |
| Wormser (historical) | 11.1 miles | 18 | |
| Quebec | 14.6 miles | 16 | |
| Melville | 15.7 miles | 11 | |
| Norwegian Settlement (historical) | 16.6 miles | 11 | |
| Carney | 18.9 miles | 16 | |
| Knob Hill | 19.9 miles | 11 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Sourdough | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7565185 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 776749. 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.