Adel, Montana

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1976. It stands in the Cascade census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59421. The Survey maps it on the Dana Ranch quadrangle.

Adel within Cascade County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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.

1886 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Dana Ranch quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1976 USGS Great Falls South quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Adel between 1996 and 2020, burning about 758 acres in total. 7 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	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Firearms and explosives use	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
3 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Central Land Office	LEMMING
28 August 2020	Natural	1.4 acres	Central Land Office	HOUND CREEK
2 August 1996	Natural	under an acre	Helena - Lewis and Clark National Forest	RUBY CREEK
14 August 2015	Natural	262 acres	Central Land Office	ADEL
11 August 2012	Natural	under an acre	Central Land Office	UPPER POLE
26 July 2005	Natural	7.8 acres	Central Land Office	not named
25 July 2009	Natural	under an acre	Helena - Lewis and Clark National Forest	SUCKER
21 July 2013	Firearms and explosives use	390 acres	Butte Field Office	COPPER CITY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cascade County

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Adel in 2 storm reports in 2013: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
September 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Adel	-	High winds measuring 60KT (69MPH) at Millegan.
September 2013	Hail	Adel	-	Hail measuring 1.75 inches (golf ball sized) and rainfall of .45 inches was reported by Sieben Livestock. Damage to siding of a residential building was also reported.

Every storm recorded in Cascade 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
Millegan	13.5 miles	12
Hardy	14.6 miles	12
Mid Canon	15.7 miles	12
Cascade	17.3 miles	15
Saint Clair (historical)	17.7 miles	15
Castner Falls	20.4 miles	12
Riverdale	22.1 miles	15
Saint Peter	24.5 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 768124. 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.

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.