Benz, Montana

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Terry South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59349. It sits by Devils Backbone. The Survey maps it on the Kinsey NE quadrangle.

Benz within Prairie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1953 USGS Miles City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Miles City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Miles City quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Kinsey NE quadrangle1:24000
1980 USGS Terry quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Benz between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,268 acres in total. 2 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
Natural	2
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Debris and open burning	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
4 August 2000	Natural	15 acres	Eastern Land Office	not named
1 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Prairie County	ZERO - PRAIRIE
14 July 2016	Natural	2.8 acres	Miles City Field Office	ISLAND
28 May 2001	Smoking	5.0 acres	Miles City Field Office	BON FIELD
16 February 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	545 acres	Miles City Field Office	CAMP CREEK
16 February 1995	Debris and open burning	700 acres	Eastern Land Office	FEBRUARY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Prairie County

Storms near this place

5 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Benz in 5 storm reports in 2011: 5 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
March 2011	Flood	Benz	-	An impressive ice jam on the Yellowstone River contained ice chunks the size of a house according to an observer. This ice jam caused damage to the Shirley pumping plant at the Buffalo Rapids District 2 Irrigation Project in Terry.
March 2011	Flood	Benz	-	On March 16th, small creeks and streams that were swollen. On March 18th, an ice jam around 9 miles long and extending 5 miles west of Terry downstream to near the I-94 bridge near Fallon was causing flooding on the Yellowstone River.
March 2011	Flood	Benz	-	Small creeks, streams and the Yellowstone River are flooding surrounding fields and low lying areas.
May 2011	Flood	Benz	-	Small streams rose out their banks due to heavy rains and above normal wet spring.
May 2011	Flood	Benz	-	Creeks and streams flowed out of their banks in some areas.

Every storm recorded in Prairie 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Zero	0.9 miles	8
Saugus	2.3 miles	8
Blatchford	4.4 miles	8
Calypso	8.9 miles	8
Sutherland (historical)	10.0 miles	8
Terry	13.6 miles	8
McCloud	17.4 miles	8
Bluffport	20.7 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 768715. 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.