Stranahan, Montana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Big Sandy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59460. It lies near Crow Coulee Bar. The Survey maps it on the Stranahan quadrangle.

Stranahan within Chouteau County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1890 USGS Fort Benton quadrangle1:250000
1892 USGS Fort Benton quadrangle1:250000
1897 USGS Fort Benton quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1953 USGS Stranahan quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Fort Benton quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Stranahan between 1999 and 2018, burning about 876 acres in total. 4 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	4
Equipment and vehicle use	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
11 August 2018	Natural	822 acres	North Central Montana District	VIRGELLE
24 July 1999	Natural	20 acres	North Central Montana District	NO 3
24 July 1999	Natural	2.0 acres	North Central Montana District	NO 4
2 July 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	12 acres	Central Land Office	HIGHWAY 321
28 April 2018	Natural	20 acres	Northeastern Land Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chouteau County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Stranahan: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Virgelle Sandstone	Silica	Unknown

Every working recorded in Chouteau 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
Virgelle	4.0 miles	10
Lippard	4.8 miles	14
Coal Banks Landing	5.6 miles	9
Inga (historical)	7.5 miles	12
Ophir (historical)	9.2 miles	14
Loma	10.5 miles	14
Verona	11.2 miles	9
Kenilworth	13.9 miles	10

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.

Wikidata item Q122542263

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 777251. 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.