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Dagmar, Montana

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1958. It stands in the Medicine Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59219. The Survey maps it on the Dagmar quadrangle. It stands 2,034 feet above sea level.

Dagmar within Sheridan County

On record in Dagmar

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Dagmar between 1995 and 2008, burning about 1,424 acres in total. 2 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
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning1
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
5 July 2008Natural50 acresMedicine Lake National Wildlife RefugeEAST DAGMAR
24 July 2006Natural2.0 acresMedicine Lake National Wildlife RefugeKATY'S LAKE
10 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined17 acresMedicine Lake National Wildlife RefugeCHRISTIANSEN
31 May 1996Debris and open burning2.0 acresMedicine Lake National Wildlife RefugeCANAL
3 May 2002Equipment and vehicle use1,200 acresMedicine Lake National Wildlife RefugeBRUSHLAKE
5 November 1995Equipment and vehicle use153 acresNortheast Montana Wetland Management DistrictMALL-POND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sheridan County

Storms near this place

23 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dagmar in 23 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 15 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 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
September 2025HailDagmar-Public reported quarter size hail, estimated from photo via Facebook.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindDagmar-Public reported, via Facebook, a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindDagmar-Public reported thunderstorm wind damage, via Facebook: A pivot was blown over; a grain bin was blown half a mile into a hay field; an outbuilding was destroyed; and the roof of another outbuilding was blown completely off.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindDagmar-At the mesonet site, 7 SW Dagmar, a 62 mph wind gusts was recorded.
July 2019Heavy RainDagmar-Public reported a storm-total rainfall of 3.21 inches.
July 2018HailDagmar-Public reported ping pong ball size hail.
June 2018HailDagmar-Public reported hail up to the size of quarters.
June 2018HailDagmar-Public reported hail up to the size of quarters, lasting for approximately 5 minutes.
July 2017Tornado (EF0)Dagmar-Initially reported by Sheridan County dispatch, a small short-lived rope tornado was observed. This was further verified by additional reports and photos.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindDagmar-The Coalridge mesonet site recorded a 69 mph wind gust.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindDagmar-The Katy Lake mesonet site recorded a 66 mph wind gust.
July 2010HailDagmar-The hail dented some cars and caused some house siding damage.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindDagmar-A 22 foot pine tree was uprooted by the strong thunderstorm winds.
August 2008HailDagmar-no account filed
August 2006HailDagmar-no account filed
May 2000HailDagmar-no account filed
July 2000HailDagmar-no account filed
August 2000HailDagmar-no account filed
September 2000HailDagmar-no account filed
August 1999HailDagmar-no account filed
August 1998HailDagmar-no account filed
August 1998HailDagmar-no account filed
June 1995HailDagmar-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sheridan 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
Volmer4.1 miles6
Coalridge7.9 miles4
Rock Crossing10.1 miles7
Reserve13.9 miles6
Antelope15.6 miles6
Medicine Lake17.2 miles7
McElroy20.9 miles5
Homestead21.2 miles8

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 DagmarAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5208575The 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 770423. 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.