West Lewistown, Montana

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Reed and Bowles Trading Postlisted 2010 · 0.8 miles away

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.

• 1941 USGS Lewistown quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1944 USGS Lewistown quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Lewistown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1959 USGS Lewistown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1978 USGS Lewistown quadrangle1:100000
• 1985 USGS Lewistown quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of West Lewistown between 1996 and 2019, burning about 3 acres in total. 1 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Lewistown Heights
• Akerville (historical)
• Lewistown
• Lewistown Junction
• Roy-Winifred Junction
• Baxter

Every fire recorded in Fergus County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of West Lewistown: 5 past producers, 4 producers, 3 occurrences. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Fergus County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 778297. 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.