Tobacco, Montana

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.

• 1913 USGS Stryker quadrangle1:125000
• 1916 USGS Stryker quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
• 1957 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1960 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Fortine quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1981 USGS Whitefish Range quadrangle1:100000
• 1997 USGS Fortine quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 203 fires within 5 miles of Tobacco between 1992 and 2020, burning about 286 acres in total. 49 started naturally. 8 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Eagle Lake Ranch
• Fortine
• Eureka
• Midvale
• Mills Springs (historical)
• Rexford

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Tobacco: 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Barium-Barite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 777687. 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.