BlockVirden, Montana
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Shelby census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59474. It stands on Reservoir Coulee. The Survey maps it on the Virden quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1943 USGS Shelby quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Shelby quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Shelby quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Sweet Grass Hills quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Virden quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
10 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Virden between 2017 and 2020, burning about 112 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Toole County | LINCOLN FIRE |
| 25 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 100 acres | Toole County | KW FIRE |
| 22 August 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Central Land Office | not named |
| 4 July 2017 | Fireworks | 2.0 acres | Central Land Office | not named |
| 4 July 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Central Land Office | not named |
| 28 July 2018 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Central Land Office | not named |
| 15 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Central Land Office | not named |
| 22 May 2017 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Central Land Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 778031. 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.