BlockZero, Montana
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Terry South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59349. It sits by Devils Backbone. The Survey maps it on the Zero quadrangle. It stands 2,260 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1953 USGS Miles City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Miles City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Miles City quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Zero quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Terry quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
6 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Zero between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,268 acres in total. 2 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 | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 August 2000 | Natural | 15 acres | Eastern Land Office | not named |
| 1 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Prairie County | ZERO - PRAIRIE |
| 14 July 2016 | Natural | 2.8 acres | Miles City Field Office | ISLAND |
| 28 May 2001 | Smoking | 5.0 acres | Miles City Field Office | BON FIELD |
| 16 February 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 545 acres | Miles City Field Office | CAMP CREEK |
| 16 February 1995 | Debris and open burning | 700 acres | Eastern Land Office | FEBRUARY |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benz | 0.9 miles | 8 | |
| Saugus | 1.6 miles | 8 | |
| Blatchford | 3.5 miles | 8 | |
| Calypso | 8.0 miles | 8 | |
| Sutherland (historical) | 9.9 miles | 8 | |
| Terry | 12.7 miles | 8 | |
| McCloud | 17.0 miles | 8 | |
| Bluffport | 19.8 miles | 9 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Zero | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q14704798 | The 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 778759. 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.