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Whately, Montana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Glasgow census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59248. It lies in Whately Coulee. The Survey maps it on the Whately quadrangle.

Whately within Valley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

7 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Whately between 2017 and 2020, burning about 7 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/undetermined4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
12 August 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresNortheastern Land Officenot named
5 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNortheastern Land Officenot named
24 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNortheastern Land Officenot named
20 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNortheastern Land Officenot named
19 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNortheastern Land Officenot named
13 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreValley CountyFDH-MTLG20-75
30 May 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreValley CountyFDH-MTLG20-67

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Valley 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
Glasgow7.0 miles10
Nashua8.5 miles11
Square Deal (historical)8.9 miles11
Park Dale (historical)9.0 miles11
Idlewile (historical)9.2 miles11
Free Deal (historical)9.4 miles11
Park Grove9.8 miles11
New Deal (historical)9.9 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 778335. 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.