Brady, Montana
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Conrad census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59416. The Survey maps it on the Brady quadrangle. 116 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,530 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBrady fell from 140 to 116 between 2010 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 140 | |
| 2020 | 116 | -24 (-17%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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.
- 1920 USGS Conrad quadrangle1:125000
- 1954 USGS Shelby quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Shelby quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Brady quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Conrad quadrangle1:100000
Storms near this place
35 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brady in 35 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 19 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 3 heavy rain, 1 flash 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brady | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brady | - | Ambient weather station. Sustained winds were 57 mph at the time of observation. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brady | - | An Ambient weather station reported a 69 mph wind gust. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brady | - | A 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust measured on Wednesday evening at Brady NE Montana Mesonet site. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Brady | - | Golf ball sized hail was reported by the public on the s curve east of Brady on Brady rd. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Brady | - | The public reported golf ball sized hail along I-15. It was hailing long and hard enough, with low visibility, that vehicles had to pull over on I-15. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brady | - | Public weather station measured a severe caliber gust. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brady | - | Trained spotter reports a partially broken power pole. Time was estimated by radar. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brady | - | An ambient weather sensor measured this strong gust. |
| April 2019 | Heavy Rain | Brady | - | A trained spotter reported a heavy rainfall of 1.86 inches at 6 W Brady. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Brady | - | Quarter size hail west of Brady. Severe crop damage. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brady | - | Emergency management officials reported that a portion of a corrugated metal roof was blown off, with debris hitting a transformer and causing a power outage. The event time was estimated by radar. |
| June 2014 | Heavy Rain | Brady | - | Heavy rain of about 1.98 inches in 48 hours was reported. |
| June 2013 | Heavy Rain | Brady | - | Heavy rain of 0.92 inches in one hour was reported 4 miles S of Brady, MT as a result of strong thunderstorms in the area. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Brady | - | Severe hail measuring 1.50 inches (approximately ping pong ball sized) was reported 5 miles SSE of Brady, MT. |
| June 2013 | Flash Flood | Brady | - | Multiple public calls about flash flooding due to thunderstorms in the area. Water was reported flowing over portions of Interstate 15 near Brady. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Brady | - | Hail measuring 1.00 inches (quarter sized) was reported 6 mi W of Brady, MT. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Brady | - | Hail of 1.00 inches was reported 10 miles NE of Brady. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Brady | - | Hail of 1.00 inches was reported 4 miles NW of Brady. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Brady | - | Golf ball sized hail, measuring 1.75 inches, was reported 12 miles ENE of Brady. |
| July 2010 | Hail | Brady | - | A thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Brady 7E. |
| July 2010 | Hail | Brady | - | A thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail southwest of Brady. |
| July 2010 | Hail | Brady | - | A thunderstorm dropped 1.25 inch diameter hail at Brady 27ENE. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brady | - | A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 58 mph at Brady 2E. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brady | - | A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 60 mph at Brady. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Brady | - | no account filed |
| September 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brady | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Brady | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brady | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Hail | Brady | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Brady | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Brady | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Brady | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Brady | - | no account filed |
| August 1993 | Hail | Brady | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Midway (historical) | 5.0 miles | 7 | |
| Midway Colony | 8.5 miles | 7 | |
| Conrad | 10.9 miles | 8 | |
| Erickson (historical) | 14.3 miles | 11 | |
| Gallup City | 15.0 miles | 11 | |
| Ledger | 15.5 miles | 7 | |
| Manson | 16.5 miles | 11 | |
| Fowler | 19.6 miles | 7 |
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 Brady | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5733097 | The 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 802053. 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.
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.




