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.
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
- Aage and Kristine Larsen Homesteadlisted 1993
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.
- 1946 USGS Dagmar quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Dagmar quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Wolf Point quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Wolf Point quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
6 since 1995Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 July 2008 | Natural | 50 acres | Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge | EAST DAGMAR |
| 24 July 2006 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge | KATY'S LAKE |
| 10 June 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 acres | Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge | CHRISTIANSEN |
| 31 May 1996 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge | CANAL |
| 3 May 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1,200 acres | Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge | BRUSHLAKE |
| 5 November 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | 153 acres | Northeast Montana Wetland Management District | MALL-POND |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
23 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2025 | Hail | Dagmar | - | Public reported quarter size hail, estimated from photo via Facebook. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dagmar | - | Public reported, via Facebook, a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dagmar | - | 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 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dagmar | - | At the mesonet site, 7 SW Dagmar, a 62 mph wind gusts was recorded. |
| July 2019 | Heavy Rain | Dagmar | - | Public reported a storm-total rainfall of 3.21 inches. |
| July 2018 | Hail | Dagmar | - | Public reported ping pong ball size hail. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Dagmar | - | Public reported hail up to the size of quarters. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Dagmar | - | Public reported hail up to the size of quarters, lasting for approximately 5 minutes. |
| July 2017 | Tornado (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 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dagmar | - | The Coalridge mesonet site recorded a 69 mph wind gust. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dagmar | - | The Katy Lake mesonet site recorded a 66 mph wind gust. |
| July 2010 | Hail | Dagmar | - | The hail dented some cars and caused some house siding damage. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dagmar | - | A 22 foot pine tree was uprooted by the strong thunderstorm winds. |
| August 2008 | Hail | Dagmar | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Dagmar | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Dagmar | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Dagmar | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Dagmar | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Hail | Dagmar | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Hail | Dagmar | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Hail | Dagmar | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Hail | Dagmar | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Dagmar | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Volmer | 4.1 miles | 6 | |
| Coalridge | 7.9 miles | 4 | |
| Rock Crossing | 10.1 miles | 7 | |
| Reserve | 13.9 miles | 6 | |
| Antelope | 15.6 miles | 6 | |
| Medicine Lake | 17.2 miles | 7 | |
| McElroy | 20.9 miles | 5 | |
| Homestead | 21.2 miles | 8 |
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 Dagmar | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5208575 | 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 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.



