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Wade, Montana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the East Carbon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59014. The Survey maps it on the Wade quadrangle.

Wade within Carbon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

Fires near this place

38 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Wade between 1992 and 2017, burning about 975 acres in total. 15 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
Natural15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Fireworks2
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresMiles City Field OfficeLAST DAY
7 September 2006Naturalunder an acreBillings Field OfficeHIGHWAY 310 2
6 September 2006Naturalunder an acreBillings Field OfficeHIGHWAY 310 1
5 September 2001Natural3.0 acresCrow AgencyBIG BULL
4 September 1996Railroad operations and maintenance20 acresMiles City Field OfficeWORK TEAM
5 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresBillings Field OfficeHWY 310
5 August 2003Naturalunder an acreMiles City Field OfficeMARKER
24 August 1996Smoking3.0 acresMiles City Field OfficeSCHWEND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Wade: 5 occurrences, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Gypsum-Anhydrite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Daisy MineGypsum-AnhydriteUnknown
Jay Kay MineGypsum-AnhydriteUnknown
Bridger CreekUraniumOccurrence
Red Dome AreaUraniumOccurrence
UnknownUraniumOccurrenceStratabound
UnknownUraniumOccurrenceStratabound
Unnamed UraniumUraniumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Carbon County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wade in 1 storm report in 2011: 1 lightning. The reports record 1 death. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2011LightningWade1 killedCarbon County officials reported that a rancher was struck and killed by lightning in the Pryor Mountains. The Sheriff's department said a 54-year-old man was rounding up cattle for branding at a ranch about 12 miles east of Bridger when he and his horse were struck about 1:30 pm on June 11th. The man and his horse died at the scene.

Every storm recorded in Carbon 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Bowler6.2 miles11
Golden (historical)8.8 miles10
Belfry9.9 miles12
Bridger10.7 miles10
Warren10.9 miles9
Cherry Springs (historical)13.6 miles10
Chance16.4 miles13
Fromberg16.8 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 778054. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.