Ware, Montana

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Denton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59457. The Survey maps it on the Danvers quadrangle.

Ware within Fergus County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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 Lewistown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Lewistown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1970 USGS Danvers quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Lewistown quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Ware in 2017, burning about 13 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
Equipment and vehicle use	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
3 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	6.7 acres	Northeastern Land Office	not named
3 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	6.7 acres	Northeastern Land Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fergus County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Ware: 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite, Clay, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
North Moccasin Mt	Iron	Occurrence
South Moccasin	Gold, Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite	Occurrence	Fluorite
Unnamed Location	Clay	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Fergus County

Storms near this place

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ware in 1 storm report in 2014: 1 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2014	Heavy Rain	Ware	-	Heavy rain, measuring 2.00 inches in 11 hours, was reported.

Every storm recorded in Fergus 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
Spring Creek Colony	3.2 miles	8
Amherst	3.3 miles	8
Danvers	3.8 miles	8
Deerfield Colony	5.2 miles	8
Kingston	5.3 miles	8
Spring Creek Junction	6.4 miles	8
Samples Crossing	6.7 miles	8
Hanover	7.4 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 778108. 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.