Springtown, Montana

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Drummond census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59832. It stands on Gambler Creek. The Survey maps it on the Elevation Mountain quadrangle.

Springtown within Granite County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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.

1919 USGS Drummond quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1921 USGS Drummond quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1947 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1960 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Elevation Mountain quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1984 USGS Missoula East quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

86 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Springtown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,085 acres in total. 67 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
Natural	67
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Debris and open burning	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Equipment and vehicle use	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
9 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Southwestern Land Office	MULKEY GULCH
7 September 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Southwestern Land Office	DEEP CREEK
26 September 2005	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Southwestern Land Office	not named
17 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Missoula Field Office	ELEVATION MOUNTAIN
16 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Southwestern Land Office	not named
13 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Southwestern Land Office	DRY MULKEY
13 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Southwestern Land Office	ANDERSON HILL
1 September 2004	Natural	under an acre	Southwestern Land Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Granite County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 102 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 102 workings within 5 miles of Springtown: 47 past producers, 26 unknowns, 24 occurrences, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Gold, Silver, Silver, 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
Baker & Sullivan	Lead, Silver	Unknown
Baker and Sullivan Mine	Silver, Lead, Copper	Producer	Galena
Big Horn Calcium Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Blue Moon Mine	Tungsten, Copper, Gold, Silver	Past Producer
Dandy Mine	Gold, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer	Gold
Dandy Mine	Gold, Silver, Uranium, Zinc	Occurrence
Fairview Mine	Gold, Silver, Copper, Molybdenum, Tellurium, Barium-Barite, Bismuth	Past Producer	Bismuth, Chalcopyrite, Molybdenite, Silver, Tetrahedrite
Fairview Mine	Gold, Silver, Bismuth	Unknown
First Chance (Garnet) District	Gold, Tungsten	Producer	SKARN
Garnet	Barium-Barite	Unknown

Every working recorded in Granite 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
Top O'Deep	2.0 miles	19
Beartown	3.2 miles	19
Garnet	3.6 miles	19
Stump Town (historical)	4.1 miles	19
Bearmouth	6.8 miles	20
Ozan	7.1 miles	19
Bradman	7.6 miles	19
Byrne	11.3 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 777093. 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.