BlockSutherland, Montana
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Terry South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59349. It stands on Swede Creek. The Survey maps it on the Spring Draw quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Miles City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Miles City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Miles City quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Spring Draw quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Terry quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
9 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Sutherland (historical) between 1994 and 2020, burning about 788 acres in total. 6 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 | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2015 | Natural | 23 acres | Miles City Field Office | CAMP CREEK |
| 1 September 1996 | Natural | 50 acres | Miles City Field Office | 10 MILE CK |
| 8 August 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Miles City Field Office | HORSE CREEK |
| 24 August 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Prairie County | FLOWING - PRAIRIE |
| 1 August 2000 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Miles City Field Office | MAGGIE |
| 2 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Eastern Land Office | CREEK |
| 2 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 43 acres | Eastern Land Office | FLAT |
| 17 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 340 acres | Prairie County | TEN MILE |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1715634. 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.