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Bowdoin, Montana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Malta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59538. The Survey maps it on the Bowdoin quadrangle.

Bowdoin within Phillips County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

14 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Bowdoin between 1992 and 2019, burning about 320 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined4
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Debris and open burning1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
27 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.1 acresBowdoin National Wildlife RefugeHORSE
12 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresBowdoin National Wildlife RefugeCOPPLE
4 August 2014Natural1.8 acresBowdoin National Wildlife RefugePOSSUM NATURAL OUT
22 August 2017Debris and open burning6.7 acresBowdoin National Wildlife RefugeBAT WING
15 August 1992Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresBowdoin National Wildlife RefugeSALSBERRY
11 August 2019Naturalunder an acreBowdoin National Wildlife RefugeDOODLEBUG
6 July 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.3 acresBowdoin National Wildlife RefugeTOWNSITE
20 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined33 acresBowdoin National Wildlife RefugeBEAVER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Phillips County

Storms near this place

10 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bowdoin in 10 storm reports between 2001 and 2022: 7 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
July 2022HailBowdoin-Public reported, via Facebook, hail up to the size of golf balls.
June 2016HailBowdoin-Public reported hen egg sized hail.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindBowdoin-A freight train was derailed by high winds. Forty rail cars holding mostly empty containers were blown off the tracks.
October 2016FloodBowdoin-Beaver Creek near Saco (GSCM8) rose above its flood stage of 11 feet at 4:44 AM MST on October 6th, crested at 13.30 feet at 12:12 PM MST on October 7th, then fell back down below flood stage at 6:42 AM MST on October 12th.
August 2013HailBowdoin-Trained spotter reported nickel-sized hail.
June 2011HailBowdoin-Mainly pea-sized hail reported, mixed with some nickel-sized hail...along with heavy rain.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindBowdoin-Power was lost due to storms in the area.
June 2007HailBowdoin-no account filed
June 2005HailBowdoin-no account filed
July 2001HailBowdoin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Phillips 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
East Malta Colony3.0 miles9
Sleeping Buffalo7.5 miles10
Ashfield8.5 miles9
Cree Crossing11.2 miles7
Cole12.6 miles8
Malta14.4 miles8
Saco14.7 miles9
Tattnall16.5 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 802049. 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.