Star, Montana

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1968. It stands in the Blackfeet Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59417. The Survey maps it on the Starr School quadrangle.

Star within Glacier County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

1901 USGS Browning quadrangle1:125000
1903 USGS Browning quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Cut Bank quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1963 USGS Cut Bank quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Cut Bank quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Starr School quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

162 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 162 fires within 5 miles of Star between 1992 and 2019, burning about 92 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 11 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
Recreation and ceremony	40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	32
Debris and open burning	26
Fireworks	18
Arson/incendiarism	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Smoking	6
Natural	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
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
9 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Blackfeet Agency	ANN FIRE
8 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Blackfeet Agency	FRAME
8 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Blackfeet Agency	NEW ROBE
5 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Blackfeet Agency	RED BLANKET FIRE
5 September 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Blackfeet Agency	STUMP FIRE
5 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Blackfeet Agency	89 NORTH
4 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Blackfeet Agency	WHITEGRASS
26 September 2016	Other causes	under an acre	Blackfeet Agency	CRADLE BOARD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Glacier County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Star: 7 occurrences, 5 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium. 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
East Kiowa No. 2 Extension	Iron, Titanium	Occurrence
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Kiowa Junction Deposit	Iron, Titanium	Occurrence
Lower Kiowa Deposits	Titanium, Iron	Occurrence
South Fork	Iron, Titanium	Occurrence
Two Medicine Ridge	Iron, Titanium	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Glacier 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
Kiowa	3.1 miles	10
Starr School	4.9 miles	9
Durham	5.3 miles	9
East Glacier Park Village	6.7 miles	11
East Glacier Park	7.1 miles	11
South Browning	10.5 miles	9
Browning	10.6 miles	9
North Browning	10.9 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1750506. 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.