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Coalwood, Montana

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1973. It stands in the Broadus census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59351. It lies near Twin Buttes. The Survey maps it on the Coalwood quadrangle.

Coalwood within Powder River County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

6 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Coalwood between 2000 and 2016, burning about 45 acres in total. 6 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
Natural6

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
2 September 2016Natural24 acresEastern Land OfficeLAY CREEK - ROSEBUD
8 August 2016Natural2.0 acresEastern Land OfficeFIRE 319 - ROSEBUD
7 August 2016Natural5.9 acresEastern Land OfficeROE - ROSEBUD
3 August 2000Natural5.0 acresEastern Land Officenot named
19 August 2000Natural3.0 acresEastern Land Officenot named
10 July 2016Natural5.0 acresEastern Land OfficeGREENLEAF

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Powder River County

Storms near this place

19 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coalwood in 19 storm reports between 2002 and 2016: 15 hail, 3 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
June 2016Thunderstorm WindCoalwood-Branches 3 to 4 inches in diameter were broken off trees.
June 2015HailCoalwood-The hail lasted about 40 minutes.
May 2013FloodCoalwood-Observations across the area indicated widespread 3 to 6 inches of rain fell across the area over the course of a few days. Emergency management reported that Home Creek along Highway 212 experienced some flooding. In addition, flooding of small streams and creeks occurred across the area along with debris flows on the Ash Creek burn scar area.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindCoalwood-An estimated thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph was reported 15 miles north of Broadus. Driving rain with near zero visibility was also reported.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindCoalwood-no account filed
July 2016HailCoalwood-no account filed
June 2015HailCoalwood-no account filed
June 2015HailCoalwood-no account filed
June 2015HailCoalwood-no account filed
September 2015HailCoalwood-no account filed
August 2013HailCoalwood-no account filed
September 2010HailCoalwood-no account filed
August 2008HailCoalwood-no account filed
June 2008HailCoalwood-no account filed
July 2005HailCoalwood-no account filed
June 2002HailCoalwood-no account filed
June 2002HailCoalwood-no account filed
June 2002HailCoalwood-no account filed
June 2002HailCoalwood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Powder River 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
Cameron Crossing12.7 miles7
Olive12.7 miles7
Stacey15.9 miles9
Epsie16.6 miles8
Sixmile Crossing21.2 miles7
Broadus21.9 miles8
Sonnette25.2 miles10
Powderville25.3 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 770001. 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.