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Beaverton, Montana

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Hinsdale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59261. It stands on First Creek. The Survey maps it on the Saco quadrangle.

Beaverton within Valley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Beaverton in 2018, burning about 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
8 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNortheastern Land Officenot named
17 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNortheastern Land Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Valley County

Storms near this place

1 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beaverton in 1 storm report in 2001: 1 hail. 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 2001HailBeaverton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in 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
Miles Crossing6.7 miles9
Hinsdale9.2 miles9
Larb (historical)14.6 miles7
Vandalia18.9 miles8
Genevieve (historical)21.5 miles6
Tampico24.1 miles9
Barr (historical)24.1 miles6
Riverside (historical)29.5 miles9

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 BeavertonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19460434The 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 768654. 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.