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Coffee Creek, Montana

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Denton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59424. The Survey maps it on the Coffee Creek quadrangle.

Coffee Creek within Fergus County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Coffee Creek between 2018 and 2019, burning about 48 acres 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
29 July 2018Natural47 acresNortheastern Land Officenot named
19 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresJudith Basin CountyFDH-MTLG36-67

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fergus County

Storms near this place

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coffee Creek in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 9 hail, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2018HailCoffee Creek-Public reported hail 1-mile NW of Coffee Creek. Mainly dime to nickel-size, but a few hailstones were quarter-size.
June 2018HailCoffee Creek-Spotter reported quarter-size hail and rainwater running in streets in Coffee Creek.
June 2018HailCoffee Creek-Spotter reported half dollar-size hail 1-mile south of Coffee Creek.
June 2018HailCoffee Creek-NWS employee relayed report from spotter of ping pong ball-size hail 2-miles NW of Coffee Creek. Photo was provided.
June 2016HailCoffee Creek-A thunderstorm dropped 1.25 inch diameter hail at Coffee Creek.
June 2016HailCoffee Creek-A thunderstorm dropped 1.25 inch diameter hail at Coffee Creek 6N. Also, 1.75 inch diameter hail was reported at Stanford 2NNE and a thunderstorm wind gust to 62 mph was reported at Denton 7NE.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindCoffee Creek-Reported by spotter at Coffee Creek.
July 2000Tornado (F0)Coffee Creek-This weak tornado was in a remote area and caused no damage.
June 2021HailCoffee Creek-no account filed
June 1996HailCoffee Creek-no account filed
June 1996HailCoffee Creek-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fergus 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
Denton7.4 miles8
Pownal7.5 miles13
Hoosac13.7 miles8
Samples Crossing19.8 miles8
Danvers21.1 miles8
Deerfield Colony22.3 miles8
Ware24.6 miles8
Everson (historical)25.6 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 770012. 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.