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Agawam, Montana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Choteau census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59422. It stands on Foster Creek. The Survey maps it on the Agawam North quadrangle.

Agawam within Teton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 11 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

11 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Agawam between 2017 and 2020, burning about 43 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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
5 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTeton CountyKESLER ASSIST
24 August 2017Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresCentral Land OfficeCHOTEAU
19 August 2020Natural1.0 acresTeton CountyJOHNS
14 August 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresCentral Land OfficePENDROY
21 July 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTeton CountyJITTERBUG
27 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresCentral Land OfficeDUTTON
8 May 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresCentral Land OfficeCHOTEAU
28 April 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresCentral Land Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Teton County

Storms near this place

7 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Agawam in 7 storm reports between 2017 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2025Thunderstorm WindAgawam-Mesonet station RICMT Rice Ridge measured a 50 kt gust.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindAgawam-Measured via site RICMT near Rice Ridge.
July 2022HailAgawam-Trained spotter report of 1 inch hail bouncing several feet off the ground 6 miles ESE of Bynum.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindAgawam-Mesonet station ricmt Rice Ridge observed a 50kt gust.
August 2020HailAgawam-Hail size reported to have ranged from pea-size to golf ball size, with winds of 26 mph, and torrential downpour.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindAgawam-Mesonet station reported wind gust of 80 mph.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindAgawam-Rice Ridge mesonet reported a 71 mph thunderstorm wind gust.

Every storm recorded in Teton 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
Malone4.0 miles11
Bynum7.8 miles11
Farmington7.8 miles11
Miller Colony8.2 miles11
Burton (historical)8.4 miles11
Koyl8.5 miles11
Pendroy8.6 miles12
Liberty Center (historical)10.9 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 801983. 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.