Valleytown, Montana

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Whitewater census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59261. It lies near Ash Coulee. The Survey maps it on the Genevieve quadrangle.

Valleytown within Phillips County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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.

1954 USGS Glasgow quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Glasgow quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Glasgow quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Genevieve quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Valleytown between 2005 and 2018, burning about 1,463 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning	1
Natural	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 August 2005	Natural	1,210 acres	Malta Field Office	FRENCHMAN
7 July 2018	Debris and open burning	253 acres	Northeastern Land Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Phillips 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
Bone Crossing	13.6 miles	8
Jordan Crossing	13.9 miles	8
Cole	16.6 miles	8
Tattnall	16.9 miles	7
Saco	18.0 miles	9
Cree Crossing	18.7 miles	7
Greve (historical)	20.6 miles	6
Whitewater	20.9 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 777982. 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.