Waco, Montana

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Huntley Project census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59024. It stands on Hibbard Creek. The Survey maps it on the Waco quadrangle.

Waco within Yellowstone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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 Forsyth quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Forsyth quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Forsyth quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Waco quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Hysham quadrangle1:100000
1983 USGS Forsyth quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

18 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Waco between 1998 and 2020, burning about 513 acres in total. 9 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	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4

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
2 September 2007	Natural	1.0 acres	Billings Field Office	7 MILE FLAT
7 August 2016	Natural	50 acres	Southern Land Office	CABIN CREEK
30 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Miles City Field Office	H070
30 August 2002	Natural	29 acres	Miles City Field Office	BUFFALO 2
22 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Yellowstone County	I-94 MM 36 & CUST. FRONT. RD.
15 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Southern Land Office	MILE MARKER 41
12 August 2020	Natural	45 acres	Yellowstone County	7 MILE FLATS
11 August 1998	Natural	255 acres	Southern Land Office	YELLOWSTONE COMPLEX

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yellowstone 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
Fee	1.7 miles	9
Bull Mountain	8.7 miles	10
Custer	8.9 miles	10
Pompeys Pillar	14.2 miles	11
Nibbe	18.1 miles	16
Anita	18.9 miles	16
Newton	19.7 miles	16
Mann	22.7 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 778050. 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.