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Carter, Montana

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Fort Benton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59420. The Survey maps it on the Carter quadrangle. 65 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,123 feet above sea level.

Carter within Chouteau County

Population over time

3 figures

Carter grew from 62 to 65 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
200062
201058-4 (-6%)
202065+7 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Carter in 2018, burning under an acre in total. 1 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
Natural1

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
12 August 2018Naturalunder an acreNortheastern Land Officenot named

Every fire recorded in Chouteau County

Storms near this place

25 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carter in 25 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 12 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 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
May 1993Thunderstorm WindCarter$5,000Trees and power lines down.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindCarter-A spotter traveling northbound on US-87 noted two snapped power poles near mile marker 31. Power outages were confirmed in the area.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindCarter-Reports some tree branch damage from strong winds. Small hail also observed along with some water on road. Wind speed and gust estimate not reported.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindCarter-Trained spotter reports estimated wind gusts near 60 mph in Carter.
July 2019Heavy RainCarter-Public reported 1.6 inches of rain in less than 10 minutes.
August 2013HailCarter-Hail measuring 1.00 inches (quarter sized) was reported 11 miles ENE of The Knees, MT.
June 2012HailCarter-Hail of 1.00 inches was reported 6 miles W of Carter.
June 2012HailCarter-Tennis ball sized hail, measuring 2.5 inches, was reported 5 miles NE of Carter. Winds to 70 mph, debris, and blown out windshields were also reported.
June 2012HailCarter-Two inch hail was reported 1 mi S of Carter.
July 2011HailCarter-A thunderstorm dropped 1.25 inch diameter hail at Carter 11N.
July 2010HailCarter-A thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail west of Carter.
July 2007HailCarter-A severe thunderstorm dropped .75 inch diameter hail at Carter 14W. The storm downed several large tree limbs and started a grass fire that burned between 50 and 100 acres at a location 10 miles northeast of here.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindCarter-A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 60 mph at Carter 11N.
July 2002HailCarter-A severe thunderstorm produced 0.75 inch hail at Carter 8NW.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindCarter-Actual event location Carter 11 N.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindCarter-Actual event location Carter 11 N.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindCarter-no account filed
July 2006Heavy RainCarter-no account filed
April 2003HailCarter-no account filed
May 2003Thunderstorm WindCarter-no account filed
June 2003HailCarter-no account filed
June 2003HailCarter-no account filed
August 2003HailCarter-no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindCarter-no account filed
September 1998Thunderstorm WindCarter-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chouteau 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
Floweree5.2 miles18
Tunis6.3 miles13
Lander Crossing9.6 miles16
Kershaw11.7 miles14
Shepherd Crossing12.5 miles16
Waltham15.0 miles16
Fort Benton15.5 miles14
Highwood16.2 miles15

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 CarterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q961077The 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 769624. 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.