Yreka, Montana

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Seeley Lake-Blackfoot Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59823. It stands on Skimmerhorn Creek. The Survey maps it on the Elevation Mountain quadrangle.

Yreka within Missoula County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1919 USGS Drummond quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1921 USGS Drummond quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1947 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1960 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Elevation Mountain quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1984 USGS Missoula East quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

106 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Yreka between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,034 acres in total. 78 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	78
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Recreation and ceremony	7
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Debris and open burning	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	1

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
5 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Missoula Field Office	SOUTHERN CROSS SPRIN
4 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Southwestern Land Office	SANTA PAWS
26 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Southwestern Land Office	not named
26 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Butte Field Office	WASHOE CK.
25 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Southwestern Land Office	not named
17 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Missoula Field Office	ELEVATION MOUNTAIN
16 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Southwestern Land Office	not named
15 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Southwestern Land Office	WARREN CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Missoula County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 125 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 125 workings within 5 miles of Yreka: 67 past producers, 26 occurrences, 25 unknowns, 5 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Barium-Barite, Gold, Silver. 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	Recorded
Big Horn Calcium Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Blue Moon Mine	Tungsten, Copper, Gold, Silver	Past Producer
Coloma District	Barium-Barite, Gold, Copper, Silver, Lead, Antimony	Past Producer	1897
Dandy Mine	Gold, Silver, Uranium, Zinc	Occurrence
Elk Creek Barite Mine	Barium-Barite, Lead, Zinc	Producer	1951
Elk Creek District	Gold, Barium-Barite	Past Producer	1886
Fairview Mine	Gold, Silver, Copper, Molybdenum, Tellurium, Barium-Barite, Bismuth	Past Producer	Bismuth, Chalcopyrite, Molybdenite, Silver, Tetrahedrite
Fairview Mine	Gold, Silver, Bismuth	Unknown
First Chance (Garnet) District	Gold, Tungsten	Producer	SKARN
Garnet (First Chance)	Copper, Silver, Gold, Zinc, Lead	Past Producer	1867, 1955

Every working recorded in Missoula 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
Coloma	2.9 miles	16
Greenough	6.8 miles	19
Copper Cliff	7.5 miles	16
Barite	8.1 miles	19
Sunset	8.9 miles	19
Clearwater	9.9 miles	14
Potomac	13.3 miles	17
McNamara	18.7 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 778755. 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.