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Woods Place, Montana

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Livingston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59047. It stands on Greeley Creek. The Survey maps it on the Elton quadrangle.

Woods Place within Park County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Woods Place between 1996 and 2020, burning about 1,397 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/undetermined3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Fireworks1
Debris and open burning1

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
3 August 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePark CountyI-90 349
26 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,275 acresBillings Field OfficeMENDONHALL
19 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Land Officenot named
15 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthern Land OfficeMENDENHALL RD
28 June 2015Fireworks96 acresButte Field OfficeLANE
5 February 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresPark County4999
12 January 1996Railroad operations and maintenance25 acresCuster Gallatin National ForestBUFFALO HUMP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Park County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Woods Place: 10 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Calcium. 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
Cassidy PropertyCalciumOccurrence
Curry Calcite DepositCalciumOccurrence
Unnamed CalciteCalciumOccurrence
Unnamed CalciteCalciumOccurrence
Unnamed CalciteCalciumOccurrence
Unnamed CalciteCalciumOccurrence
Unnamed CalciteCalciumOccurrence
Unnamed Calcite OccurrenceCalciumOccurrence
Unnamed Calcite OccurrenceCalciumOccurrence
Unnamed Calcite OccurrenceCalciumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Park 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
Elton2.5 miles19
Springdale3.5 miles18
Hunters Hot Springs4.4 miles18
Dahl Place9.6 miles18
Urback Place10.2 miles18
Minnie Rahn Place10.2 miles18
Shaw Place11.0 miles18
Contact13.0 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 778684. 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.