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Woodward Place, Montana

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Madison Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59729. The Survey maps it on the Varney quadrangle.

Woodward Place within Madison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 20 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

3 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Woodward Place between 1999 and 2008, burning under an acre in total. 3 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
Natural3

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
4 August 1999Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestSPRUCE SPRING
31 August 2007Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestDRY HOLLOW RIDGE
25 July 2008Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestDOUBTFUL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 44 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 44 workings within 5 miles of Woodward Place: 22 occurrences, 9 past producers, 8 prospects, 3 unknowns. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Talc-Soapstone, Manganese, Mica, Kyanite. 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
Cherry Creek DepositManganese, IronProspect1917
Cherry Creek Pegmatite.Kyanite, Copper, ManganeseOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Kyanite, Psilomelane
Johnny Gulch PumicitePumiceOccurrence
Unnamed PropertyTungsten, MolybdenumProspect
Vetter DepositFeldspar, MicaPast ProducerMuscovite
Cherry CreekCobaltOccurrenceHollandite
Cherry Creek CobaltCobaltOccurrence
Cherry Creek PlacerGoldPast Producer
Iron OccurrenceIronOccurrence
Iron OccurrenceIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Madison 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
Cameron6.6 miles21
Varney6.9 miles20
Abe (historical)7.5 miles23
Summit10.7 miles20
Reeder Place13.9 miles15
Tate Place14.5 miles15
Virginia City14.7 miles21
Ennis15.0 miles29

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122563422The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 793535. 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.