Wanso, Montana

4 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Plentywood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59257. The Survey maps it on the Soo NW quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Wanso within Sheridan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 4 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 Wolf Point quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Wolf Point quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Soo NW quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Wanso (historical) between 2006 and 2017, burning about 3 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
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
2 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Fort Peck Agency	13 MI N BROCK
26 June 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Northeastern Land Office	not named

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
Archer	11.3 miles	4
Redstone	13.2 miles	4
Midby (historical)	13.5 miles	4
Outlook	18.0 miles	4
Plentywood	19.1 miles	4
Daleview	19.3 miles	4
Medicine Lake	21.8 miles	7
Reserve	22.1 miles	6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1677381. 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.