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Bainville, Montana

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the East Roosevelt census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59212. The Survey maps it on the Bainville quadrangle. 271 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,975 feet above sea level.

Bainville within Roosevelt County

On record in Bainville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Bainville grew from 208 to 271 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010208
2020271+63 (+30%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 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

6 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Bainville between 2017 and 2019, burning about 5 acres 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/undetermined4
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
1 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.3 acresRoosevelt CountyFDH-MTLG17-122
1 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.3 acresRoosevelt CountyFDH-MTLG17-119
27 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNortheastern Land Officenot named
27 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNortheastern Land Officenot named
27 June 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNortheastern Land Officenot named
15 April 2017Railroad operations and maintenance1.5 acresNortheastern Land Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Roosevelt County

Storms near this place

34 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bainville in 34 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 15 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 2 tornado, 2 flash flood. 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
July 2002Thunderstorm WindBainville$200,000Thunderstorm wind gust blew the roof off of the Bainville School.
March 2003Flash FloodBainville$115,000no account filed
July 2009Thunderstorm WindBainville$100,000A 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.
June 2008HailBainville$60,000Hail fell in the parking lot of Fort Union damaging several vehicles including one broken side window.
July 1999Tornado (F1)Bainville$20,000no account filed
June 2024Thunderstorm WindBainville-Public reported a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindBainville-Public reported, via Facebook, multiple cases of thunderstorm wind damage: A stock trailer was rolled into a creek bottom; some shingles were blown off a roof; a barn wall was damaged; and a quonset door was lost.
June 2021Heavy RainBainville-Public reported, via Facebook, 2.5 inches of rain.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindBainville-Public reported, via Facebook, a measured thunderstorm wind gust of 67 mph.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindBainville-Trained spotter reported a thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph. Time estimated.
October 2020Thunderstorm WindBainville-At a personal home weather station, 3 WSW Bainville, a 59 mph wind gust was measured.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindBainville-Roosevelt County Emergency Manager reported ten to eleven empty BNSF train cars derailed.
July 2018HailBainville-Pubic reported, via social media, golf ball size hail.
July 2014HailBainville-Trained spotter reported quarter-sized hail.
May 2014HailBainville-Public reported pea-sized to quarter-sized hail with heavy rain.
August 2011HailBainville-Public reported golf ball-sized hail stones.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindBainville-Public estimated 60 mph winds.
July 1998Flash FloodBainville-Main street flooded in Bainville.
September 1995Tornado (F0)Bainville-Two skywarn observers spotted a tornado moving through an open field.
August 2011HailBainville-no account filed
June 2008HailBainville-no account filed
June 2008HailBainville-no account filed
July 2008Thunderstorm WindBainville-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindBainville-no account filed
August 2005HailBainville-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindBainville-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindBainville-no account filed
July 1998HailBainville-no account filed
July 1998HailBainville-no account filed
August 1998HailBainville-no account filed
June 1997HailBainville-no account filed
August 1997Thunderstorm WindBainville-no account filed
July 1997FloodBainville-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindBainville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Roosevelt 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
Lakeside5.1 miles6
Lanark7.1 miles5
Snowden10.7 miles6
McCabe10.9 miles5
Fort Union (historical)12.9 miles6
Culbertson15.6 miles6
Froid19.7 miles5
Blair21.4 miles7

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 BainvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q959144The 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 802007. 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.