Springwater Colony, Montana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Judith Gap-Shawmut census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59036. The Survey maps it on the Harlowton quadrangle.

Springwater Colony within Wheatland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1889 USGS Big Snowy Mountain quadrangle1:250000
1893 USGS Big Snowy Mountain quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Roundup quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Roundup quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Harlowton quadrangle1:24000
1993 USGS Harlowton quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

4 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Springwater Colony between 2016 and 2020, burning about 18 acres in total. None 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	2
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
28 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Wheatland County	FDH-MTLG44-365
18 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Northeastern Land Office	not named
6 April 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Southern Land Office	SELKIRK
16 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Northeastern Land Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wheatland 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
Harlowton	4.5 miles	11
Winnecook	6.4 miles	11
Hedgesville	13.4 miles	11
Duncan Ranch Colony	14.2 miles	16
Shawmut	14.7 miles	11
Living Springs	14.8 miles	11
Judith Gap	15.0 miles	12
Twodot	17.0 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 805762. 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.