Volmer, Montana

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1958. It stands in the Medicine Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59219. The Survey maps it on the Dagmar quadrangle.

Volmer within Sheridan 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.

1946 USGS Dagmar quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1948 USGS Dagmar quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Wolf Point quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Wolf Point quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

5 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Volmer between 1995 and 2008, burning about 224 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
Debris and open burning	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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 July 2008	Natural	50 acres	Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge	EAST DAGMAR
24 July 2006	Natural	2.0 acres	Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge	KATY'S LAKE
10 June 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17 acres	Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge	CHRISTIANSEN
31 May 1996	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge	CANAL
5 November 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	153 acres	Northeast Montana Wetland Management District	MALL-POND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Dagmar

Every fire recorded in Sheridan 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
Dagmar	4.1 miles	6
Rock Crossing	10.9 miles	7
Coalridge	11.3 miles	4
Reserve	17.1 miles	6
Medicine Lake	19.0 miles	7
Antelope	19.5 miles	6
Homestead	22.1 miles	8
Westby	23.6 miles	4

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122569925

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1677576. 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.