BlockBlatchford, 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 stands on Gate Coulee. The Survey maps it on the Zero quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1953 USGS Miles City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Miles City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Miles City quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Zero quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Terry quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
7 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Blatchford between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,714 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Prairie County | SAND CREEK - PRAIRIE |
| 1 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Prairie County | ZERO - PRAIRIE |
| 22 July 2014 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Miles City Field Office | CALYPSO |
| 14 July 2016 | Natural | 2.8 acres | Miles City Field Office | ISLAND |
| 12 July 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 464 acres | Miles City Field Office | MM 172 |
| 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:
Storms near this place
6 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blatchford in 6 storm reports between 2013 and 2025: 5 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2025 | Hail | Blatchford | - | Public reported hail up to the size of quarters, lasting for 15 to 20 minutes. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blatchford | - | The public reported, via social media, that an open faced barn (shed) had blown down. The shed was laying over a tractor, four wheeler and bike. Wind speeds were estimated at 70 mph, and the time of the event was estimated by radar data. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Blatchford | - | Trained spotter reported penny-sized hail. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Blatchford | - | Trained spotter reported quarter-sized hail and wind gusts up to 45 mph. |
| August 2013 | Hail | Blatchford | - | Trained spotter estimated half dollar sized hail. |
| August 2013 | Hail | Blatchford | - | Trained spotter estimated hail up to size of quarters. |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 769024. 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.