Woodside, Montana

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Hamilton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59875. It stands on Cow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hamilton North quadrangle.

Woodside within Ravalli County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

1901 USGS Hamilton quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1956 USGS Hamilton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Hamilton quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Hamilton quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Hamilton quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Hamilton North quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1980 USGS Hamilton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1998 USGS Hamilton North quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

58 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Woodside between 1992 and 2020, burning about 11,585 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 2 were 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
Debris and open burning	17
Natural	15
Recreation and ceremony	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Smoking	2
Arson/incendiarism	2

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
9 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Bitterroot National Forest	not named
4 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	RavaIIi County	500 STONEGATE DR UNIT 4
28 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Bitterroot National Forest	NEW TRAILHEAD
11 September 1996	Smoking	3.0 acres	Bitterroot National Forest	MILL CR.
9 August 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Bitterroot National Forest	not named
8 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Bitterroot National Forest	COW CREEK - ABANDONED CAMPFIRE
8 August 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Bitterroot National Forest	not named
5 August 1992	Natural	under an acre	Bitterroot National Forest	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ravalli County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Woodside: 4 unknowns, 3 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Titanium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Thorium, Zirconium, Thorium, Zirconium, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Canyon Creek	Titanium, Thorium, Zirconium, Iron	Unknown
Ore Finder Group	Silver, Copper, Gold	Prospect
Sleeping Child Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer
Unnamed Location	Clay	Occurrence
Blodgett Creek	Titanium, Iron, Thorium, Zirconium	Unknown
Mill Creek	Titanium, Iron, Thorium, Zirconium	Unknown
Palmen Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Ravalli County Crusher	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Sheafman Creek	Titanium, Iron, Thorium, Zirconium	Unknown
Woodside Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Ravalli 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Woodside Crossing	0.5 miles	17
Dutch Hill (historical)	2.0 miles	17
Corvallis	2.2 miles	16
Riverside	2.7 miles	17
Quast	2.9 miles	16
Pinesdale	3.5 miles	17
Cobb	3.5 miles	16
Tucker	4.0 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 793527. 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.