Wallview, Montana

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Winnett South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59072. The Survey maps it on the Flatwillow quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Wallview within Petroleum 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 Roundup quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Roundup quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Flatwillow quadrangle1:24000
1993 USGS Musselshell quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

9 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Wallview (historical) between 2001 and 2020, burning about 1,380 acres in total. 4 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	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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
8 August 2001	Natural	57 acres	Miles City Field Office	HOWARDCOUL
17 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	400 acres	North Central Montana District	KLAMERT
8 July 2016	Natural	131 acres	North Central Montana District	CORRAL
6 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Northeastern Land Office	not named
16 July 2017	Natural	450 acres	North Central Montana District	244
14 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	45 acres	Southern Land Office	SAGE HEN
14 July 2017	Natural	294 acres	North Central Montana District	FLATWILLOW
13 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	North Central Montana District	HIGHWAY 244

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Petroleum 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
Flatwillow	5.9 miles	6
Kelley	15.3 miles	6
Winnett	17.6 miles	8
Teigen	20.1 miles	8
Hoyle (historical)	23.4 miles	8
Shay (historical)	27.0 miles	8
Jitney (historical)	29.3 miles	9
Weede (historical)	30.7 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1721623. 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.