Truly, Montana

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1976. It stands in the Cascade census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59421. It lies near Cannonball Coulee. The Survey maps it on the Truly quadrangle.

Truly within Cascade County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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.

1886 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1955 USGS Gore Hill quadrangle1:62500
1957 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Truly quadrangle1:24000
1976 USGS Great Falls South quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

8 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Truly between 1997 and 2018, burning about 176 acres in total. 2 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	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Debris and open burning	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
1 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Central Land Office	ULM
11 August 2018	Natural	10 acres	Central Land Office	not named
9 July 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	2.0 acres	Central Land Office	ULM
14 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Central Land Office	CASCADE FARMER
14 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	150 acres	Central Land Office	SAND COULEE
4 June 2018	Natural	under an acre	Central Land Office	not named
22 June 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Central Land Office	GORE HILL
30 April 1997	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Central Land Office	BOX LANE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cascade 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
Castner Falls	4.4 miles	12
Ulm	6.2 miles	16
Garrison (historical)	6.5 miles	16
Riverdale	8.0 miles	15
Flood (historical)	8.3 miles	14
Donovan Park (historical)	10.1 miles	14
Fair Haven Colony	10.4 miles	16
Eden	10.7 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 777785. 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.