BlockAshuelot, Montana
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Sun River Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59443. The Survey maps it on the Fort Shaw quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 15 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.
- 1886 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1950 USGS Fairfield quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1976 USGS Great Falls North quadrangle1:100000
- 1983 USGS Fort Shaw quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
3 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Ashuelot in 2017, burning about 1 acre in total. None 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/undetermined | 2 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 July 2017 | Other causes | under an acre | Central Land Office | SUN RIVER |
| 30 June 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Central Land Office | FORT SHAW |
| 28 June 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Central Land Office | FORT SHAW |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Ashuelot: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Savoy Quarry | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
9 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ashuelot in 9 storm reports between 2018 and 2025: 7 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | Hail | Ashuelot | - | Mping report of quarter sized hail. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Ashuelot | - | Quarter size hail reported by member of the public. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Ashuelot | - | Public report from MPING for 2 inch hail near 3 NW Sun River. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Ashuelot | - | Public report via MPING reporting 2 inch hail. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Ashuelot | - | Trained spotter reported 1 inch hail. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Ashuelot | - | Measured 1.5 inch hail with time of occurrence estimated from radar. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Ashuelot | - | Report from MPING for 2 inch hail (hen egg). |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashuelot | - | NWS storm damage survey estimated 75 mph wind gusts broke one to three-inch diameter softwood tree branches near Sun River. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashuelot | - | NWS storm damage survey estimated 87 mph wind gusts uprooted trees near Sun River. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Shaw | 3.6 miles | 15 | |
| Sun River | 5.0 miles | 13 | |
| Simms | 7.7 miles | 13 | |
| Cascade Colony | 8.1 miles | 13 | |
| Gordon | 10.1 miles | 13 | |
| Lowry | 11.0 miles | 11 | |
| Olson Place | 12.1 miles | 10 | |
| Vaughn | 14.1 miles | 14 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 768382. 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.