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Biddle, Montana

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the East Powder River census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59314. It stands on Badger Creek. The Survey maps it on the Biddle quadrangle. 28 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,337 feet above sea level.

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Biddle within Powder River County

On record in Biddle

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.

Population over time

3 figures

Biddle fell from 61 to 28 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
200061
201041-20 (-33%)
202028-13 (-32%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Biddle between 1999 and 2018, burning about 96 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
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
28 July 2018Natural3.0 acresMiles City Field OfficeTHOMPSON
24 July 1999Natural75 acresMiles City Field OfficeBEAR SKULL
20 July 2016Natural17 acresEastern Land OfficeMONUMENT PEAK
30 June 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreEastern Land OfficeWILD BILL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Powder River County

Storms near this place

60 of 87 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Biddle in 87 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 50 hail, 27 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 2 heavy rain. 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 1993HailBiddle$5,000no account filed
August 2025Flash FloodBiddle$2,000Report of creeks flowing out of their banks. Fences were damaged and water tanks floated downstream. A few fields were flooded as well.
August 2025HailBiddle-Accumulating hail and heavy rain reported.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindBiddle-Mesonet station mtbid at 6.2 S Biddle.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindBiddle-Multiple tree branches down, up to 3 inches in diameter.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindBiddle-Tree branches of 8 to 10 inches in diameter were broken.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindBiddle-Some branches were downed but no significant damage was reported.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindBiddle-Some branches were down but no significant damage.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindBiddle-Tree limbs 6 inches in diameter were downed. Several out buildings were damaged.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindBiddle-A new roof under construction was blown off a house.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindBiddle-A wind gust of 78 mph was recorded in Biddle.
June 2019HailBiddle-In addition, a 6 inch diameter half of a tree fell on a roof.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindBiddle-Five inch diameter tree limbs were broken.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindBiddle-Half of a tree, 6 inches in diameter, fell on a roof.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindBiddle-Several round hay bales were moved 200 yards. In addition, several tree limbs of 4 to 5 inches in diameter were downed several feet from the tree.
March 2014FloodBiddle-County officials reported that a large ice jam formed on the Powder River about 13 miles southwest of Broadus. As a result, high water levels and some low land flooding occurred on portions of the Powder and Little Powder Rivers south of Broadus.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindBiddle-A wind gust estimated at 65 mph was reported 10 miles north of Biddle.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindBiddle-A wind gust of 70 mph was estimated 5 miles south of Biddle. This resulted in a small trailer home being destroyed.
July 2008Flash FloodBiddle-Flooding was reported at Wild Bill and Blacktail Creeks along Powder River. In addition, two roads were washed out south of Biddle near the Montana/Wyoming border.
June 2007HailBiddle-Golf ball size hail lasted for 15 minutes.
June 2007HailBiddle-Golf Ball size hail lasted for 15 minutes.
June 2005Tornado (F0)Biddle-The tornado touched down in the vicinity of Buffalo Creek Ranch about 1/2 mile west and 1/2 mile north of the intersection of Olmstead Road and Bay Horse Road, which is five miles south of the state line in Campbell County, Wyoming, and about 25 miles north of Recluse, Wyoming. There was some minor damage to a shop and barn, as well as, several trees downed. A few fence posts were pulled out and a grain bin was set on a flatbed trailer. There were homes near the tree damage, but the homes were not damaged.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindBiddle-60 mph wind gust
June 2001HailBiddle-Hail covered the ground
June 2001HailBiddle-Hail covered the ground. Some broken windows.
July 2001Flash FloodBiddle-2 inches of rain and pea size hail
July 2001Flash FloodBiddle-Pea size hail and 1 inch of rain in 20 minutes
June 2000HailBiddle-Broken windows. Winds to 50 mph.
June 2000HailBiddle-4 windows broken in house. Windshield smashed in pickup truck.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindBiddle-60 mph thunderstorm wind gust
July 2000Thunderstorm WindBiddle-Nickel size hail and an 18 inch tree branch broken off due to a thunderstorm.
May 1999HailBiddle-Nickel size hail reported.
July 1999HailBiddle-Spotter report of dime size hail.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindBiddle-Spotter estimated 60 mph wind gust.
June 1999HailBiddle-Spotter report of quarter size hail.
June 1999HailBiddle-Penny to nickel size hail was observed in Biddle.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindBiddle-Spotter report of 60 mph wind gust.
July 1998Heavy RainBiddle-A spotter reported 0.80 inches of rainfall in 45 minutes.
July 1998HailBiddle-Several reports of dime to quarter sized hail in and around Biddle.
July 1998Heavy RainBiddle-A spotter reported an inch of rainfall in 15 minutes.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindBiddle-Large branches down.
September 2023HailBiddle-no account filed
May 2021Thunderstorm WindBiddle-no account filed
June 2020HailBiddle-no account filed
July 2020HailBiddle-no account filed
July 2020HailBiddle-no account filed
July 2020HailBiddle-no account filed
July 2020HailBiddle-no account filed
June 2020HailBiddle-no account filed
July 2019Thunderstorm WindBiddle-no account filed
July 2019HailBiddle-no account filed
June 2019HailBiddle-no account filed
April 2018HailBiddle-no account filed
July 2018HailBiddle-no account filed
June 2015HailBiddle-no account filed
June 2014HailBiddle-no account filed
August 2013HailBiddle-no account filed
June 2011HailBiddle-no account filed
June 2011HailBiddle-no account filed
June 2010HailBiddle-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Powder River 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
Belle Creek12.4 miles8
Bay Horse12.7 miles8
Moores (historical)18.0 miles8
Broadus24.0 miles8
Moorhead28.3 miles8
Epsie31.7 miles8
Olive32.7 miles7
Sonnette33.9 miles10

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 BiddleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4904056The 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 802029. 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.