Roosevelt County, Montana

50 topographic sheets cover 25 settlements here, and 2 properties are on the National Register of Historic Places.

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From the record

2 National Register listings published here.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

Montana within the United States

Roosevelt County within Montana

What the record shows

158 topographic sheet readings cover the county's settlements.
2 properties here are on the National Register of Historic Places: 1 site and 1 building.
1 of the 2 listings was added during the 1970s.
The Geographic Names Information System records 25 populated places in this county; 25 are covered by at least one topographic sheet.

Places on the National Register

Every property in this county listed on the National Register of Historic Places, with the year it was listed and the federal nomination document.

Photograph	Property	Type	Listed	Reference
	Fort Peck Agency	site	1970	70000365
	Hale's Filling Station and Grocery	building	1994	94000864

Wildfire, 1992 to 2020

2,714 fires

Every wildfire the federal occurrence database records inside this county: 2,714 of them, burning about 87,071 acres. 140 started naturally and 561 were recorded as arson. Each settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it.

Reported cause	Fires
Arson/incendiarism	561
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	509
Misuse of fire by a minor	309
Equipment and vehicle use	254
Fireworks	254
Debris and open burning	246
Smoking	172
Recreation and ceremony	149
Natural	140
Railroad operations and maintenance	63
Power generation/transmission/distribution	46
Other causes	11

The five largest, by the area the report gives. None of them was recorded as arson.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
11 September 2012	Debris and open burning	9,709 acres	Fort Peck Agency	BROOKMAN
23 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8,634 acres	Malta Field Office	FLAGSTAFF HILL
31 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	7,748 acres	Fort Peck Agency	BUFFALO PASTURE
16 August 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	6,836 acres	Fort Peck Agency	GREYBULL
24 July 2006	Natural	5,555 acres	Fort Peck Agency	BUFFALO RANCH
2 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	3,448 acres	Fort Peck Agency	BULL
31 October 1999	Railroad operations and maintenance	2,436 acres	Fort Peck Agency	HALLOWEEN
13 September 2012	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1,696 acres	Fort Peck Agency	B. SMITH

Every settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it - see the settlement index below.

Storms, 1953 to 2026

60 of 613 shown

The NOAA Storm Events Database holds 613 reports for this county, causing 1 death, 2 injuries and about $13,740,250 in recorded property damage. Each settlement page carries the reports that name it.

Kind of event	Reports
Thunderstorm Wind	285
Hail	247
Flash Flood	25
Flood	22
Tornado	16
Heavy Rain	9
Funnel Cloud	6
Wildfire	2
Lightning	1

The most serious of them, by death, then injury, then recorded damage. The accounts are quoted exactly as the forecast office filed them.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Froid	1 killed, 1 hurt, $250,000	Severe thunderstorms across the region had widespread reports of winds in the 60 to 75 mph range, but a microburst 3 miles west of the town of Froid produced winds estimated based off of the damage survey at 110 to 125 mph. The winds hit just after 9 pm MDT. A modular home that was strapped to the ground had the straps snapped, and it was lifted from its foundation, thrown 30 feet to the north-northeast and flipped over. Two people were in the home at the time and a female ended up approximately 250-280 feet north-northeast of the main debris area. The female victim died shortly afterwards and the male victim was hospitalized with injuries including a broken arm and collarbone. The home was a total loss. A garage next to the home had damage to the garage doors, the siding on the west side of the home, and some of the roofing shingles torn off.
June 2008	Lightning	Poplar	1 hurt	A 70 year old man raking the yard suffered minor injuries from a nearby lightning strike. He received treatment at the hospital before being released several hours later.
October 1999	Wildfire	Wolf Pt	$5,000,000	no account filed
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Culbertson	$3,000,000	Widespread and significant damage throughout the town of Culbertson. See the event narrative below.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Brockton	$1,250,000	14 cars of a freight train were blown off the tracks approximately 1 mile east of Brockton. See the event narrative below.
July 1998	Flash Flood	Culbertson	$1,000,000	Rain falling at the rate of more than 5 inches in an hour inundated the town of Culbertson. Forty-three homes sustained damage with 20 basements completely filled with water and sewage which backed up during the storm. Two homes were moved completely off of their foundations. Highway 2 was flooded and closed from Poplar to the North Dakota line until the next morning. At 11 PM local time, Highway 2 was under three feet of water which caused cars to float off of the road.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Poplar	$860,000	Roosevelt County law enforcement and numerous public reported significant damage in the town of Poplar. Numerous trees were uprooted and many homes damaged, including some roofs blown off or damaged. A FEMA Damage Assessment Team came after this event and determined the extent of damages to private and tribal HUD homes.
July 2013	Tornado (EF2)	Volt	$500,000	The tornado was first spotted about 19 miles north of Wolf Point and the NWS Storm Damage Team found downed tree limbs and a de-barked tree trunk. As it moved eastward, the tornado rolled heavy hay bails, snapped a road-sign post and flipped a loose yard shed. A few miles west of the Poplar River and just north of County Road 2042, the Beck Farm sustained the most damage involving roofs peeled away and blown off of several farm and storage buildings. Winds here were estimated at 115 to 120 mph. After crossing over the Poplar River, the tornado downed a large cottonwood tree, lifted and moved irrigation pipes, and snapped 9 power poles, then dissipated near the intersection of County Roads 2041 and 1041, about 17 miles north of Poplar.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Froid	$250,000	There was significant tree damage in the town of Froid. Some grain bins were blown over, and there was significant crop damage with crops blown down. The grain elevator in town had some metal siding peeled off and it also shifted slightly.
July 1980	Tornado	not stated	$250,000	no account filed
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Bainville	$200,000	Thunderstorm wind gust blew the roof off of the Bainville School.
March 2003	Flash Flood	Bainville	$115,000	no account filed
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Bainville	$100,000	A squall line of dissipating storms moved east through the area between 1130 pm and 1230 pm. The outflow caused a microburst. The homeowner reported that the winds hit her home at about 1200 and 1205 am. She was not injured.\|A new modular home was slightly lifted and pushed back off its foundation. The house dropping back on the foundation and it caused the I-beams below the house to bend. The house was sitting on a very sturdy foundation, but it did not have any strapping to hold it to the foundation. There were two outbuildings significantly damaged as well.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Poplar	$100,000	See event narrative below.
August 2002	Flash Flood	Wolf Pt	$100,000	Heavy rain during the evening of the 6th and morning of the 7th over Western and Central Roosevelt County. The Wolf Point Airport reported 2.82 inches of rain between 1 am and 3 am on the 7th. The rain flooded the railroad underpass in Wolf Point and several fields between Wolf Point and Poplar. Several roads were washed out in the area.
July 1998	Tornado (F1)	Poplar	$100,000	Tornado damage was done to a ranch 18 miles northwest of Poplar. One steel pole barn was completely destroyed and farm equipment was tossed around and damaged. Windows were blown out of the house and the wheat crop was a total loss.
June 2008	Hail	Bainville	$60,000	Hail fell in the parking lot of Fort Union damaging several vehicles including one broken side window.
September 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Froid	$50,000	Damage was found at a new home site with a modular home and a large metal pole barn located 2.4 miles east of the intersection of Highway 16 and County Road 496. There were two other home sites west of this home, with no obvious damage. The newer home had a few missing shingles, but the new pole barn had the south door blown in with the south wall blown out to the southeast. There were a few trees that were snapped or cracked and dropped about 2-3 feet off the ground, including older Russian olive trees. The damage to the pole barn was estimated to have been caused by 70-75 mph winds. The homeowners were home and said the wind came from the west-northwest and there was a lot of dirt and gravel kicked up and thrown at them prior to their seeking shelter in a safe room in the pole barn. The garage door was blown in and the south wall was blown out. The garage door blew through the side wall and landed on a trailer near a tree row. All the insulation and debris from the side wall collapse were blown eastward. \|\|Another third of a mile east is the town site of McCabe, where there are a few homes, sheds and outbuildings. This area had a large older Russian olive tree uprooted as well as a two healthy spruce trees uprooted that were at least 25 feet tall. There was a shed damaged as well, but the two garage doors on it were open directly to the microburst winds, and the wood at the concrete footing was over 30 years old. All the debris was blown eastward. \|\|There was a lot of minor damage as well through the townsite.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Bredette	$50,000	A well built, newer Morton Building had part of the roof peeled off by rear-flank downdraft winds from a tornadic supercell. The EF-2 tornado was two miles south of this location.
June 1998	Flash Flood	Brockton	$50,000	Approximately 5 inches of rain fell in less than two hours over the Brockton area. Flash flooding caused propane tanks to float through town and portions of Hwy 2 were closed due to water covering the road. Several men had to be rescued from their car after it was swept off of the road in flood water.
June 1994	Hail	Near Mildred	$50,000	no account filed
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Near Mildred	$50,000	no account filed
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Poplar Arpt	$30,000	See the event narrative below.
July 2001	Flash Flood	Central Portion	$30,000	Intense thunderstorms produced 3 to 5 inches of rainfall which caused flash flooding in the Brockton area. Water up to 4 feet deep covered U.S. Highway 2, two miles east of town. Two vehicles were swept off the road. One vehicle ended up in a ditch, and the occupants were not injured. Another vehicle was swept off the road, and underneath a railroad bridge. The two female occupants crawled out of the vehicle before it was swept under the bridge, and swam to solid ground. They stated that they could not touch the ground when they got out of the vehicle. The car ended up 400 feet downstream of the railroad bridge.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Poplar Arpt	$25,000	Trained spotter reported they lost part of the roof of a steel outbuilding.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Brockton	$25,000	Spotter reported that the roof was blown off a pole barn and two walls of the pole barn had collapsed.
June 1999	Flash Flood	Poplar	$25,000	Emergency Manager reported road closures in central Roosevelt county due to extremely heavy rain falling on already saturated soil. Up to 2 feet of water was reported over the North Poplar Road. Other secondary roads along the Poplar River and Smoke Creek were also closed due to high water.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Froid	$25,000	no account filed
September 1969	Tornado (F2)	not stated	$25,000	no account filed
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Poplar	$20,000	Spotter reported trees down with heavy rain and wind speed was unknown. Poplar RAWS reported a wind gust of 72 mph at 20:28 MST. A long metal building near the Poplar Airport had the southwest corner of the metal roof peeled back and blown downstream.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Wolf Pt	$20,000	Wind gust to 78 mph downed 6 inch diameter trees in Wolf Point and blew down power lines. The wind also destroyed a shed in Wolf Point.
July 1999	Hail	Poplar	$20,000	no account filed
July 1999	Tornado (F1)	Bainville	$20,000	no account filed
July 1998	Tornado (F1)	Wolf Pt	$12,000	Spotter reported winds over 100 miles an hour and damage to outbuildings .
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Wolf Pt Intl Airport(Kolf)	$10,000	The Wolf Point Airport had a gust to 73 mph. A nearby trailer park had a pop up camper that was flipped over by the wind and totaled.
July 1998	Flash Flood	Brockton	$10,000	Water was running over Highway 344. The highway was closed to traffic.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Wolf Pt	$10,000	no account filed
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Wolf Pt	$10,000	no account filed
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Poplar	$8,000	The wind pulled an empty fertilizer tank out of the ground and ripped off the back of a quonset hut. Cottonwood trees were uprooted and blown to the ground.
August 2010	Hail	Froid	$5,000	Public report in a newspaper clipping of 2.5 to 3 inch hail occurred at 1310 MST. At 1312 MST 2 miles NNE of Froid, nickel size hail fell. Spotter reported 1.5 inch hail 2 miles NNE of Froid at 1315 MST. At 1320 MST Froid 1.00 to 1.75 inch hail fell mixed with 60 mph winds, denting a camper.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Poplar	$5,000	An abandon house trailer was blown across US Highway 2.
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Wolf Pt	$5,000	Thunderstorm wind gusts blew a shed over and did roof damage to a house.
June 1959	Tornado (F1)	not stated	$2,500	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Bredette	$2,000	A measured wind gust to 53 mph blew off part of the house siding.
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Poplar	$2,000	A Grain auger was destroyed by severe thunderstorm winds.
July 2008	Hail	Froid	$1,500	The hail ranged from pea to golf ball size and broke some windows out of the home. Several acres of crop damage was also reported.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Wolf Pt	$1,000	Tree branches were blown off of trees and rain gutters were blown off of the hospital.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Wolf Pt	$1,000	Wind gusts up to 59 mph measured at the Wolf Point Airport ASOS site. Power pole near Wolf Point was snapped and line was sparking. Volunteer fire department responded.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Froid	$1,000	Winds combined with hail and dented a camper.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Bredette	$1,000	A window was broken and minor damage occurred to the home's deck.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Brockton	$1,000	The wind caused an air conditioner to be knocked out of a window. A tree branch broke and caused a window to be broken.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Froid	$1,000	Strong downburst winds broke 12-15 inch limbs off of cottonwood trees, and damaged shingles on a roof.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Poplar	$1,000	no account filed
July 1953	Tornado (F1)	not stated	$250	no account filed
April 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Ft Kipp	-	The Fort Kipp NW Montana Climate Office mesonet site (FTKM8) recorded a 62 mph wind gust.
April 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Bredette	-	The Bredette NE Montana Climate Office mesonet site (BDEM8) recorded a 64 mph wind gust.
April 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Poplar Arpt	-	The Poplar N Montana Climate Office mesonet site (PARM8) recorded a 58 mph wind gust.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Wolf Pt Intl Airport(Kolf)	-	Report occurred at the Wolf Point Airport ASOS.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Sprole	-	Report occurred at the Poplar RAWS station.
June 2025	Hail	Froid	-	A trained spotter reported pea to quarter size hail.

Mines and quarries

68 recorded

The Survey's mineral resources record lists 68 workings inside this county. None of them still produces: all are closed or unrecorded. Each settlement page carries the workings within five miles of it.

Commodity	Workings
Sand and Gravel, Construction	66
Uranium	1
Bentonite	1

The least common of them first, because a county's hundredth gravel pit says nothing its first ten did not.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unnamed Bentonite	Bentonite	Occurrence
Unnamed Uranium Location	Uranium	Occurrence
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
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Every populated place in the county

Named settlements recorded in the Geographic Names Information System, each with the topographic sheets covering it. Villages, hamlets and abandoned places alike. Each is shown with the nearest named watercourse or landform and the survey quadrangle it falls on.

Anderson

Fort Peck Reservation census division · 59213 · Smoke Creek SW quadrangle

7 sheets, 1909 to 1983
Bainville

East Roosevelt census division · 59212 · Bainville quadrangle

5 sheets, 1954 to 1983
Benrud

Fort Peck Reservation census division · 59201 · Reed Springs quadrangle

6 sheets, 1915 to 1983

No longer a settlement
Biem

Fort Peck Reservation census division · 59258 · Biem School quadrangle

7 sheets, 1909 to 1983
Blair

Fort Peck Reservation census division · 59218 · On Big Muddy Creek · Fort Kipp quadrangle

7 sheets, 1948 to 1982
Boyd

East Roosevelt census division · 59218 · Fort Kipp quadrangle

7 sheets, 1948 to 1982

No longer a settlement
Bredette

Fort Peck Reservation census division · 59255 · Bredette quadrangle

5 sheets, 1954 to 1983
Brockton

Fort Peck Reservation census division · 59213 · Brockton quadrangle

9 sheets, 1914 to 1982
Calais

Fort Peck Reservation census division · 59213 · Calais quadrangle

9 sheets, 1914 to 1982
Chelsea

Fort Peck Reservation census division · 59255 · On Chelsea Creek · Chelsea quadrangle

6 sheets, 1912 to 1972
Culbertson

East Roosevelt census division · 59218 · On Clover Creek · Culbertson quadrangle

6 sheets, 1954 to 1982
Deertail Indian Village

Fort Peck Reservation census division · 59255 · Near White Shield Island · Sprole quadrangle

6 sheets, 1912 to 1972

No longer a settlement
Fort Kipp

Fort Peck Reservation census division · 59213 · Fort Kipp quadrangle

7 sheets, 1948 to 1982
Fort Union

East Roosevelt census division · 59212 · On Cedar Creek · Bainville SE quadrangle

6 sheets, 1954 to 1982

No longer a settlement
Froid

East Roosevelt census division · 59226 · Froid quadrangle

5 sheets, 1954 to 1983
Lakeside

East Roosevelt census division · 59212 · On Little Muddy Creek · Bainville SW quadrangle

6 sheets, 1954 to 1982
Lanark

East Roosevelt census division · 59218 · On Shell Creek · McCabe East quadrangle

5 sheets, 1954 to 1983
Macon

Fort Peck Reservation census division · 59201 · Macon quadrangle

6 sheets, 1916 to 1972
McCabe

East Roosevelt census division · 59218 · McCabe West quadrangle

5 sheets, 1954 to 1983
Poplar

Fort Peck Reservation census division · 59255 · On Boxelder Creek · Poplar quadrangle

6 sheets, 1912 to 1972
Slab Crossing

East Roosevelt census division · 59226 · By Rocky Point · Rocky Point quadrangle

8 sheets, 1914 to 1982
Snowden

East Roosevelt census division · 59212 · In Snowden Coulee · Bainville SE quadrangle

6 sheets, 1954 to 1982
Sprole

Fort Peck Reservation census division · 59255 · Near White Shield Island · Sprole quadrangle

6 sheets, 1912 to 1972
Volt

Fort Peck Reservation census division · 59201 · Volt quadrangle

6 sheets, 1915 to 1983
Wolf Point

Fort Peck Reservation census division · 59201 · On Wolf Creek · Wolf Point quadrangle

6 sheets, 1916 to 1972

The vanished settlements of Roosevelt County: the places named above that are no longer on the map.

Provenance

Topographic sheets. USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection, county index, measured from the bulk metadata.
Fire insurance maps. Library of Congress Sanborn collection, faceted to this county.
Photographs. Each place queried individually against the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs search.
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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.