Culbertson, Montana
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the East Roosevelt census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59218. It stands on Clover Creek. The Survey maps it on the Culbertson quadrangle. 753 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,932 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCulbertson grew from 714 to 753 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 714 | |
| 2020 | 753 | +39 (+5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Wolf Point quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Wolf Point quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Culbertson quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Culbertson quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
8 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Culbertson between 1992 and 2020, burning about 88 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 August 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | Roosevelt County | FDH-MTLG17-282 |
| 14 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Roosevelt County | FDH-MTLG17-353 |
| 28 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Northeastern Land Office | not named |
| 13 May 2020 | Debris and open burning | 22 acres | Richland County | HARDSCRABBLE - RICHLAND |
| 11 May 1992 | Recreation and ceremony | 18 acres | Fort Peck Agency | BIG MUDDY |
| 7 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 42 acres | Roosevelt County | FDH-MTLG17-32 |
| 20 April 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Roosevelt County | FDH-MTLG17-39 |
| 17 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Roosevelt County | FDH-MTLG17-31 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
36 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Culbertson in 36 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 18 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Culbertson | $3,000,000 | Widespread and significant damage throughout the town of Culbertson. See the event narrative below. |
| July 1998 | Flash Flood | Culbertson | $1,000,000 | Rain falling at the rate of more than 5 inches in an hour inundated the town of Culbertson. Forty-three homes sustained damage with 20 basements completely filled with water and sewage which backed up during the storm. Two homes were moved completely off of their foundations. Highway 2 was flooded and closed from Poplar to the North Dakota line until the next morning. At 11 PM local time, Highway 2 was under three feet of water which caused cars to float off of the road. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Culbertson | - | The Big Sky Field (KS85) AWOS station recorded a 58 mph thunderstorm wind gust. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Culbertson | - | Law Enforcement reported hail up to the size of quarters. He also noted that it had accumulated on the surface around town. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Culbertson | - | A trained spotter reported hail up to the size of ping pong balls. Hail had also accumulated on roadways. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Culbertson | - | The public reported, via Facebook, hail up to the size of golf balls. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Culbertson | - | The public reported hail up to the size of ping pong balls. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Culbertson | - | Public reported, via Twitter, hail up to the size of quarters. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Culbertson | - | The Big Sky Field Airport AWOS measured a thunderstorm wind gust of 66 mph. |
| September 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Culbertson | - | The Big Sky Field Airport AWOS (KS85) measured a thunderstorm wind gust of 59 mph. |
| June 2021 | Hail | Culbertson | - | Trained spotter reported quarter size hail and heavy rain. |
| July 2020 | Hail | Culbertson | - | Trained spotter, via Facebook, reported plentiful hail up to the size of half dollars. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Culbertson | - | Trained spotter reported a couple of trees were snapped. Winds speed is estimated. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Culbertson | - | Trained spotter reported 60 mph wind gusts. |
| July 2018 | Hail | Culbertson | - | Trained spotter reported quarter size hail. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Culbertson | - | Trained spotter reported several pine trees snapped. |
| March 2017 | Flood | Culbertson | - | Roosevelt County dispatch reported water from Clover Creek running over US Highway 2, approximately 5 miles east of Culbertson, near mile marker 650. Times are estimated. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Culbertson | - | Trained spotter reported quarter-sized hail. |
| July 2007 | Hail | Culbertson | - | The hail was accompanied by 50 mph wind. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Culbertson | - | Several trees were damaged or blown down in the town of Culbertson by wind gusts estimated at 80 mph |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Culbertson | - | High winds downed small trees, and broke large branches off of trees in the Culbertson area. |
| July 2010 | Hail | Culbertson | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Culbertson | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Culbertson | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Culbertson | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Culbertson | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Culbertson | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Culbertson | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Culbertson | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Culbertson | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Culbertson | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Culbertson | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Flash Flood | Culbertson | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Culbertson | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Culbertson | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Culbertson | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blair | 5.8 miles | 7 | |
| Lanark | 8.5 miles | 5 | |
| Boyd (historical) | 9.0 miles | 7 | |
| McCabe | 10.1 miles | 5 | |
| Fort Kipp | 10.5 miles | 7 | |
| Froid | 13.2 miles | 5 | |
| Slab Crossing | 13.8 miles | 8 | |
| Bainville | 15.6 miles | 5 |
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 Culbertson | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q961402 | 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 770366. 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.



