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Bynum, Montana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Choteau census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59419. It stands on Miller Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bynum quadrangle. 28 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,976 feet above sea level.

Bynum within Teton County

Population over time

2 figures

Bynum fell from 31 to 28 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.

YearPeople Change
201031
202028-3 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 11 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

15 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Bynum between 2017 and 2020, burning about 24 acres in total. None 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 use9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Other causes1
Debris and open burning1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 August 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTeton CountyJOHNSON HILLTOP
24 August 2017Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresCentral Land OfficeCHOTEAU
2 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresCentral Land Officenot named
27 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTeton Countynot named
19 July 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresCentral Land OfficePENDROY
17 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresCentral Land Officenot named
27 June 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresCentral Land Officenot named
28 April 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresCentral Land Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Teton County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bynum: 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, REE, Titanium, Titanium, Iron, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Choteau Iron DepositTitanium, Iron, ZincProspect
Iron-Titanium OccurrenceIron, REE, TitaniumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Teton County

Storms near this place

15 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bynum in 15 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 3 wildfire, 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
June 2023Debris FlowBynum$50,000The Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest submitted a video showing South Fork Teton Road experiencing washouts and debris flows.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindBynum-A 59 mph thunderstorm wind gust measured on Wednesday evening at Bynum W MT Mesonet site.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindBynum-Measured gust reported by spotter. Also reported the wind was strong enough to move heavy furniture across the yard.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindBynum-A 60 mph gust was reported between 3 and 4 PM.
August 2022Heavy RainBynum-Additional reports of pea sized hail.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindBynum-A 65 mph gust was reported between 4 and 5 PM.
May 2019FloodBynum-Law enforcement reported a portion of Teton Canyon Road had been washed-out by flooding along the North Fork of the Teton River. Exact duration of flooding unknown.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindBynum-COOP observer 2-miles SSE of Bynum estimated peak gust of 80 mph and quarter-size hail with the passage of a thunderstorm. Significant damage to crops occurred.
July 2018HailBynum-Up to quarter-size hail accumulated to a depth of several inches in Bynum. Crops ruined.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindBynum-Estimated peak gust of 60 mph near Bynum. Lots of pea-size hail and rain.
September 2000WildfireBynum-McDonald 2 fire, 4345 acres burned, lighning caused, continued from August.
August 2000WildfireBynum-McDonald 2 fire, 4345 acres burned, lightning caused.
July 2000WildfireBynum-McDonald 2 fire, 4345 acres burned, lightning caused.
July 1998HailBynum-no account filed
July 1998HailBynum-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Teton 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
Miller Colony3.8 miles11
Koyl6.0 miles11
Pendroy6.6 miles12
Agawam7.8 miles11
Malone8.1 miles11
Farmington9.9 miles11
Rockport Colony10.6 miles12
Truchot Hill11.7 miles11

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 BynumAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5004169The 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 769461. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, 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.