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.
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
Huntley Project Officelisted 2017
Population over time
3 figuresBallantine 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 346 | |
| 2010 | 320 | -26 (-8%) |
| 2020 | 293 | -27 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 16 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.
- 1893 USGS Huntley quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1954 USGS Billings quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Billings quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Billings quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Worden quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Billings quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
29 since 2009Regional 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/undetermined | 23 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Yellowstone County | END OF 18 N. |
| 1 September 2016 | Natural | 50 acres | Southern Land Office | CHICKEN |
| 23 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.9 acres | Southern Land Office | INTERSTATE 94 |
| 21 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southern Land Office | HAY RAIL |
| 1 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Yellowstone County | S 24TH RD |
| 1 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Southern Land Office | BAILER |
| 1 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Southern Land Office | HORSESHOE |
| 1 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southern Land Office | MM 16 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
19 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1993 | Hail | Ballantine | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Flood | Ballantine | - | 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 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ballantine | - | Large tree limbs were blown down. |
| August 2019 | Hail | Ballantine | - | Large tree limbs were blown down. |
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ballantine | - | A wind gust of 60 mph was estimated just west of Ballantine. |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ballantine | - | A few power outages were reported. |
| May 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ballantine | - | Garage doors damaged |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ballantine | - | Road signs and construction debris on I-94 |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ballantine | - | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Hail | Ballantine | - | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Hail | Ballantine | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Ballantine | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Ballantine | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Ballantine | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Ballantine | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Ballantine | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Ballantine | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Ballantine | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ballantine | - | 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.
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 Ballantine | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q968539 | 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 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.





