Spring Gulch, Montana

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Superior census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59872. It stands on Keystone Creek. The Survey maps it on the Superior quadrangle.

Spring Gulch within Mineral County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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 Superior quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1960 USGS Wallace quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Superior quadrangle1:24000
1999 USGS Superior quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

217 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 217 fires within 5 miles of Spring Gulch between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,676 acres in total. 105 started naturally. 4 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
Natural	105
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25
Debris and open burning	23
Railroad operations and maintenance	19
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Recreation and ceremony	10
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Fireworks	5
Smoking	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Other causes	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
8 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	EAST PARDEE
6 September 2011	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	SPRING GULCH
6 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	FLAT CREEK
3 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	SLOWAY
28 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	THOMPSON CREEK
28 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	I-90 MM 42
27 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	TAMI DRIVE
26 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Lolo National Forest	MRL MP 189

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mineral County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Spring Gulch: 10 past producers, 6 unknowns, 3 occurrences, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Silver, Copper, Lead, Gold. 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
Buster & J. B. Claims	Quartz	Prospect
East Coeur D'Alene Silver	Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc	Unknown
Keystone Mine	Silver, Lead, Copper	Past Producer	Vein
Little Pittsburg	Copper, Lead, Silver	Past Producer
Little Pittsburg Mine	Silver, Copper, Lead, Antimony, Gold	Past Producer	Chalcopyrite
Little Pittsburg Mine	Lead, Silver, Gold, Copper, Antimony	Unknown
Montana Barite Pit	Barium-Barite	Producer
Nancy Lee Mine	Lead, Silver, Copper, Zinc, Gold	Past Producer	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite
Nancy Lee Mine	Silver, Zinc, Lead, Gold	Past Producer
Prosperity Mine	Silver, Lead, Copper	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Mineral 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
Keystone	3.5 miles	8
Superior	5.4 miles	8
Hopkins	6.5 miles	8
Oliverville	6.5 miles	8
Amador (historical)	7.0 miles	8
Toole	7.0 miles	12
Cedar Mouth (historical)	7.2 miles	8
Cedar Junction (historical)	7.3 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 791282. 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.