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Whites City, Montana

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Townsend East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59644. It lies near Johnnies Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Whites City quadrangle.

Whites City within Broadwater County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

18 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Whites City between 1993 and 2020, burning about 853 acres in total. 10 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
Natural10
Recreation and ceremony6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
2 September 2006Naturalunder an acreHelena - Lewis and Clark National ForestSPRING GULCH
3 August 2013Naturalunder an acreHelena - Lewis and Clark National ForestAVALANCHE CREEK
25 August 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHelena - Lewis and Clark National ForestWHITE'S BONFIRE
25 August 2000Naturalunder an acreHelena - Lewis and Clark National ForestBILK MTN.
19 August 2006Naturalunder an acreHelena - Lewis and Clark National ForestWHITES GULCH
14 August 2003Recreation and ceremony840 acresHelena - Lewis and Clark National ForestSHEEP CAMP
31 July 2000Natural5.0 acresHelena - Lewis and Clark National ForestCONFEDERATE GULCH
29 July 2002Naturalunder an acreHelena - Lewis and Clark National ForestSPRING GULCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Broadwater County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 31 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Whites City: 13 past producers, 10 occurrences, 7 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Lead, Copper, Gold, Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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
Confederate Gulch, BackerLead, Copper, GoldProducerGalena, Pyrite
Eagle DumpCopper, Zinc, Gold, Lead, SilverOccurrence
HummingbirdGold, Silver, CopperUnknown
MillerGold, SilverPast ProducerDistal disseminated Ag-Au
Sulliran and Stewart Claims.Lead, ZincOccurrenceGalena
Sullivan & StewartLead, ZincUnknown
Superior MineGold, Copper, Lead, Silver, ZincOccurrence
White GulchPhosphorus-PhosphatesUnknown
Unnamed LocationCopperOccurrence
Boulder Creek PlacerGoldOccurrence

Every working recorded in Broadwater 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
Diamond City2.7 miles15
Barker7.3 miles15
Noble8.2 miles15
Canton (historical)15.5 miles16
Winston15.8 miles17
Bedford19.6 miles17
Deep Creek (historical)21.6 miles19
Townsend22.1 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 793234. 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.