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Ballantine, Montana

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Huntley Project census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59006. The Survey maps it on the Worden quadrangle. 293 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,995 feet above sea level.

Ballantine within Yellowstone County

On record in Ballantine

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

3 figures

Ballantine fell from 346 to 293 between 2000 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
2000346
2010320-26 (-8%)
2020293-27 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 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

29 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Ballantine between 2009 and 2020, burning about 594 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/undetermined23
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreYellowstone CountyEND OF 18 N.
1 September 2016Natural50 acresSouthern Land OfficeCHICKEN
23 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.9 acresSouthern Land OfficeINTERSTATE 94
21 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthern Land OfficeHAY RAIL
1 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresYellowstone CountyS 24TH RD
1 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouthern Land OfficeBAILER
1 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresSouthern Land OfficeHORSESHOE
1 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthern Land OfficeMM 16

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yellowstone County

Storms near this place

19 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ballantine in 19 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 11 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
August 1993HailBallantine$5,000no account filed
May 2019FloodBallantine-Fly Creek Bridge on Old Highway 87 14 miles west of Hardin was damaged by flood waters. Flooding was also reported along Fly Creek at Pompeys Pillar. Other roads that were affected by flood waters included Fly Creek Road and Lower Canal Road. Some of this flooding was due to very heavy rain from thunderstorms upstream during the evening of the 26th.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindBallantine-Large tree limbs were blown down.
August 2019HailBallantine-Large tree limbs were blown down.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindBallantine-A wind gust of 60 mph was estimated just west of Ballantine.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindBallantine-A few power outages were reported.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindBallantine-Garage doors damaged
June 2001Thunderstorm WindBallantine-Road signs and construction debris on I-94
July 2022Thunderstorm WindBallantine-no account filed
July 2022HailBallantine-no account filed
May 2021HailBallantine-no account filed
August 2011HailBallantine-no account filed
May 2007HailBallantine-no account filed
May 2007HailBallantine-no account filed
May 2007HailBallantine-no account filed
August 2006HailBallantine-no account filed
July 2004HailBallantine-no account filed
July 2001HailBallantine-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindBallantine-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Yellowstone 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
Worden1.1 miles16
Mann2.2 miles16
Knox2.8 miles16
Newton5.0 miles16
Anita6.5 miles16
Nibbe6.7 miles16
Huntley9.0 miles17
Shepherd10.5 miles17

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 BallantineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q968539The 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 768484. 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.