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Barber, Montana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Ryegate census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59074. The Survey maps it on the Deadmans Basin Reservoir quadrangle.

Barber within Golden Valley County

On record in Barber

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Barber between 2003 and 2017, burning about 962 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/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1

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
11 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNortheastern Land Officenot named
23 July 2003Debris and open burning696 acresNortheastern Land Officenot named
19 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined264 acresNorth Central Montana DistrictTODD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Golden Valley County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Barber: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Minnemann RanchClayOccurrence

Every working recorded in Golden Valley County

Storms near this place

7 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barber in 7 storm reports between 2007 and 2020: 6 hail, 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
March 2014FloodBarber-County officials and the Montana Department of Transportation reported significant flooding of streams and low lying areas across the area. The combination of rapid snow melt and ice resulted in high water levels along the Musselshell River from Harlowton to Shawmut...Ryegate and Lavina. In addition, some county roads were reported to be impassable.
July 2013HailBarber-Some windows were broken.
July 2020HailBarber-no account filed
July 2019HailBarber-no account filed
July 2011HailBarber-no account filed
July 2007HailBarber-no account filed
June 2007HailBarber-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Golden Valley 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
Dodgetown (historical)1.3 miles11
Ryegate6.8 miles11
Golden Valley Colony7.0 miles11
Franklin7.4 miles11
Seventynine (historical)12.4 miles11
Slayton Junction (historical)17.2 miles11
Rothiemay17.4 miles11
Cushman18.2 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 768500. 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.