Corinth, Montana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Hardin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59064. It stands on Tenmile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Corinth quadrangle. It stands 3,104 feet above sea level.

Corinth within Big Horn County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1894 USGS Fort Custer quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Hardin quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Hardin quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Hardin quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Corinth quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Hardin quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

8 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Corinth between 2017 and 2020, burning about 483 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
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
21 August 2017	Railroad operations and maintenance	5.0 acres	Southern Land Office	OVERPASS #3
21 August 2017	Railroad operations and maintenance	9.0 acres	Southern Land Office	OVERPASS #4
21 August 2017	Railroad operations and maintenance	5.1 acres	Southern Land Office	OVERPASS #5
31 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Big Horn County	FLY CREEK NORTH
27 July 2017	Railroad operations and maintenance	6.0 acres	Southern Land Office	1700 FLY CREEK RD
2 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Southern Land Office	1743 FLY CREEK ROAD
14 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	458 acres	Southern Land Office	FLY CREEK
25 March 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Big Horn County	1900016

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Big Horn County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Corinth in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2014: 2 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
March 2014	Flood	Corinth	-	County officials and the Montana Department of Transportation reported small stream and low land flooding. Numerous roads and some highways were reported to have water flowing across them.
June 2011	Flood	Corinth	-	Very heavy rainfall the second half of May 2011 maintained some flooding into the early part of June before water levels receded. See May 2011 Storm Data publication for details regarding the significant flood impacts and damage estimates.

Every storm recorded in Big Horn 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Toluca	9.0 miles	10
Rowley	13.4 miles	10
Carperville (historical)	18.7 miles	11
Kingley	19.5 miles	11
Foster	20.4 miles	11
Hardin	20.5 miles	12
Old Ford Place	27.1 miles	6
Dunmore	27.3 miles	12

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 Corinth	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5170630	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 770091. 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.