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Westwood Estates, Montana

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Miles City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59301. It lies near Carbon Hill. The Survey maps it on the Miles City quadrangle.

Westwood Estates within Custer County

On record in Westwood Estates

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 12 of 14 shown

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

Every listing in Custer County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

34 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Westwood Estates between 1998 and 2020, burning about 2,887 acres in total. 12 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
Natural12
Equipment and vehicle use10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Fireworks2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
4 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresCuster CountyPIROGUE - CUSTER
6 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use281 acresMiles City Field OfficeOVERPASS
4 August 2007Natural100 acresMiles City Field OfficeSUNDAY AIRPORT
27 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCuster CountyINTERSTATE - CUSTER
23 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCuster CountyRANGER - CUSTER
21 August 1998Natural500 acresMiles City Field OfficeSMITH CRK
19 August 2007Natural44 acresEastern Land Officenot named
13 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMiles City Field Office2019 MCC FIRE SUPPORT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Custer 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 Westwood Estates: 1 occurrence, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Platinum, Silver, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Eckart Portable CrusherSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Miles CityGold, PlatinumOccurrenceStream Placer
Yellowstone Hill Pit and PlantSilverProducer

Every working recorded in Custer 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
Miles City0.3 miles9
Ulmer6.3 miles9
Tusler6.7 miles9
Paragon9.4 miles9
Cutler (historical)12.7 miles8
Horton12.9 miles9
Kinsey14.5 miles9
Sadie (historical)14.6 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1721420. 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.