BlockWoods Place, Montana
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Winnett North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59087. The Survey maps it on the Dry Coulee quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Lewistown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Lewistown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1965 USGS Dry Coulee quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Zortman quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
25 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Woods Place between 1994 and 2019, burning about 56,541 acres in total. 25 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 25 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | North Central Montana District | SACAJAWEA |
| 2 September 2016 | Natural | 2.3 acres | North Central Montana District | CHAINS BUTTES 2 |
| 19 September 1994 | Natural | under an acre | North Central Montana District | CROOKED |
| 19 September 1994 | Natural | 1.5 acres | North Central Montana District | LARRY |
| 19 September 1994 | Natural | under an acre | North Central Montana District | SMALLFRY |
| 4 August 2019 | Natural | 4.2 acres | Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge | VULTURE |
| 4 August 2014 | Natural | 31 acres | North Central Montana District | HORSE |
| 4 August 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge | EAGLE EYE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dovetail (historical) | 11.4 miles | 8 | |
| Muscleshell City (historical) | 12.7 miles | 9 | |
| Shay (historical) | 29.5 miles | 8 | |
| Cat Creek | 31.1 miles | 9 | |
| Jitney (historical) | 33.8 miles | 9 | |
| Hoyle (historical) | 33.9 miles | 8 | |
| Blakeslee (historical) | 35.1 miles | 8 | |
| Winnett | 36.2 miles | 8 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 778685. 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.