Tungsten, Montana

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Philipsburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59858. The Survey maps it on the Pozega Lakes quadrangle.

Tungsten within Granite County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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.

1908 USGS Philipsburg quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1947 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1960 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Pozega Lakes quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Philipsburg quadrangle1:100000
1996 USGS Pozega Lakes quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

13 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Tungsten between 1992 and 2015, burning about 1,952 acres in total. 7 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	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
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
5 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Southwestern Land Office	SOUTHERN CROSS
2 September 2011	Natural	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	RACETRACK
11 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Southwestern Land Office	THORNTON RIDGE
8 August 2008	Natural	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	UPPER LOST CREEK
6 August 2008	Natural	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	TOWERS
24 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	GINGER GULCH
16 August 2015	Natural	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	TWIN PEAKS
12 August 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	WARM SPRINGS CREEK

Every fire recorded in Granite County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 68 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 68 workings within 5 miles of Tungsten: 24 occurrences, 20 past producers, 18 unknowns, 4 prospects. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Tungsten, Gold, Silver, Copper. 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	Recorded
Blue Bottle Claim	Tungsten, Copper, Zinc	Unknown
Danielsville	Lead, Zinc	Unknown
Fox Claim	Tungsten, Copper, Lead, Zinc	Unknown
Fox Prospect	Copper, Lead, Silver, Tungsten	Occurrence	Galena, Malachite, Scheelite
George	Silver, Copper, Gold, Lead	Past Producer
Gould-Corry Lode	Gold, Silver, Tungsten, Copper	Past Producer	1890
Gould-Corry Lode	Copper, Tungsten, Silver, Gold	Prospect
Phosphate Prospect-Upper Boulder Cr	Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Fluorine-Fluorite	Prospect
Racetrack District	Gold, Lead, Copper, Silver, Tungsten	Past Producer	1895
Silver Prospect	Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Antimony	Occurrence	Galena

Every working recorded in Granite 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
Granite	10.1 miles	17
Rumsey	10.1 miles	15
Princeton	11.2 miles	16
Echo Lake (historical)	11.2 miles	16
Clark (historical)	12.3 miles	15
Philipsburg	12.9 miles	15
Porters Corner	14.4 miles	15
Maxville	15.9 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 794136. 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.