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Armington, Montana

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Belt census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59412. It lies in Armington Coulee. The Survey maps it on the Armington quadrangle. It stands 3,563 feet above sea level.

Armington within Cascade County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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 Armington between 2017 and 2020, burning about 43 acres in total. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural3
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
9 August 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCascade Countynot named
6 August 2020Naturalunder an acreCascade CountySUNRISE LN
27 August 2019Naturalunder an acreCascade CountyLIME KILN
23 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreCascade CountyMONARCH TWO DOT
11 August 2019Naturalunder an acreCascade CountyWILD ROSE
19 July 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCascade CountyJOHNSON FIRE
26 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Land OfficeBELT RURAL
14 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreCascade CountyBUMGARNER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cascade County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Armington: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silica, Iron, Aluminum, Water, Free. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Belt ClaySilica, Iron, Aluminum, Water, FreePast Producer1905

Every working recorded in Cascade County

Storms near this place

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Armington in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flood. The reports record 2 deaths. 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
May 2023FloodArmington2 killed, $60,000BTCM8, Belt Creek near Monarch, crested at 6.79 feet on May 17th. Water levels resulted in strong currents that claimed the lives of two men visiting from Canada. The two men went into the fast moving water to retrieve their dog. The dog made it to shore, but the two men were pulled downstream and ultimately drowned. Water levels also flooded a portion of Sluice Boxes State Park's entrance parking lot as well as fields and yards from Sluice Boxes northward to Armington. A house in Neihart was flooded near the area were O'Brien Creek enters Belt Creek.
May 2023FloodArmington-BTCM8, Belt Creek near Monarch, crested at 7.02 feet. Sluice Boxes State Park's main entrance was flooded and closed. Water levels flooded many yards and approached many homes, but no reports of impactful structural flooding were received. Water levels were out of their banks in many areas from Sluice Boxes northward to near Belt.
August 2014HailArmington-Hail, measuring 0.75 inches (penny sized), was reported along with heavy rain.
August 2014HailArmington-Hail, measuring 0.75 inches (penny sized), was reported along with heavy rain.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindArmington-High winds estimated 61KT (70MPH) in the Armington Junction area.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindArmington-High winds estimated 52KT (60MPH).
July 2000HailArmington-no account filed
September 1998Thunderstorm WindArmington-no account filed

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Armington Junction1.4 miles15
Belton (historical)1.4 miles15
Belt1.8 miles15
Wayne6.0 miles15
Blythe6.0 miles15
Pleasant Valley Colony7.9 miles14
Fife8.8 miles15
Riceville10.6 miles14

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 ArmingtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q688521The 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 768337. 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.

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.