Sweetwater, Montana

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Virginia City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59710. The Survey maps it on the Belmont Park Ranch quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Sweetwater within Madison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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.

1893 USGS Dillon quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1955 USGS Dillon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Dillon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Dillon quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Dillon quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Belmont Park Ranch quadrangle1:24000
1965 USGS Dillon quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Dillon quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

2 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Sweetwater (historical) between 1994 and 2013, burning about 1,033 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
Recreation and ceremony	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
28 July 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Central Land Office	SPRING BROOK
21 April 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1,033 acres	Central Land Office	SNOWCREST/ROBB

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Sweetwater (historical): 6 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Pumice, Aluminum, Talc-Soapstone. 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
Sweetwater Deposit	Talc-Soapstone	Prospect
Unnamed Aluminum Deposit	Aluminum	Occurrence
Unnamed Aluminum Occurrence	Aluminum	Occurrence
Unnamed Pumice	Pumice	Occurrence
Unnamed Pumice Deposit	Pumice	Occurrence
Unnamed Pumice Deposit	Pumice	Occurrence
Unnamed Pumice Deposite	Pumice	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Madison 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
Ball Place	2.5 miles	14
Campbell Place	2.5 miles	14
Hale Place	3.5 miles	15
Burdick Place	4.4 miles	14
Fries Place	5.1 miles	13
Bowman Place	7.1 miles	15
Kingrey Place	7.9 miles	14
Leary Place	9.0 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1797591. 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.