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.
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
- Hale's Filling Station and Grocerylisted 1994
Population over time
2 figuresBainville 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 208 | |
| 2020 | 271 | +63 (+30%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 5 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.
- 1954 USGS Wolf Point quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Wolf Point quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Culbertson quadrangle1:100000
- 1983 USGS Bainville quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
6 since 2017Regional 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/undetermined | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.3 acres | Roosevelt County | FDH-MTLG17-122 |
| 1 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.3 acres | Roosevelt County | FDH-MTLG17-119 |
| 27 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Northeastern Land Office | not named |
| 27 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Northeastern Land Office | not named |
| 27 June 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Northeastern Land Office | not named |
| 15 April 2017 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.5 acres | Northeastern Land Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
34 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bainville | $200,000 | Thunderstorm wind gust blew the roof off of the Bainville School. |
| March 2003 | Flash Flood | Bainville | $115,000 | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bainville | $100,000 | A 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 2008 | Hail | Bainville | $60,000 | Hail fell in the parking lot of Fort Union damaging several vehicles including one broken side window. |
| July 1999 | Tornado (F1) | Bainville | $20,000 | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bainville | - | Public reported a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bainville | - | 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 2021 | Heavy Rain | Bainville | - | Public reported, via Facebook, 2.5 inches of rain. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bainville | - | Public reported, via Facebook, a measured thunderstorm wind gust of 67 mph. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bainville | - | Trained spotter reported a thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph. Time estimated. |
| October 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bainville | - | At a personal home weather station, 3 WSW Bainville, a 59 mph wind gust was measured. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bainville | - | Roosevelt County Emergency Manager reported ten to eleven empty BNSF train cars derailed. |
| July 2018 | Hail | Bainville | - | Pubic reported, via social media, golf ball size hail. |
| July 2014 | Hail | Bainville | - | Trained spotter reported quarter-sized hail. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Bainville | - | Public reported pea-sized to quarter-sized hail with heavy rain. |
| August 2011 | Hail | Bainville | - | Public reported golf ball-sized hail stones. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bainville | - | Public estimated 60 mph winds. |
| July 1998 | Flash Flood | Bainville | - | Main street flooded in Bainville. |
| September 1995 | Tornado (F0) | Bainville | - | Two skywarn observers spotted a tornado moving through an open field. |
| August 2011 | Hail | Bainville | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Bainville | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Bainville | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bainville | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bainville | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Bainville | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bainville | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bainville | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Bainville | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Bainville | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Hail | Bainville | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Bainville | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bainville | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Flood | Bainville | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bainville | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeside | 5.1 miles | 6 | |
| Lanark | 7.1 miles | 5 | |
| Snowden | 10.7 miles | 6 | |
| McCabe | 10.9 miles | 5 | |
| Fort Union (historical) | 12.9 miles | 6 | |
| Culbertson | 15.6 miles | 6 | |
| Froid | 19.7 miles | 5 | |
| Blair | 21.4 miles | 7 |
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 Bainville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q959144 | The 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.



