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Del Bonita, Montana

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Blackfeet Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59427. The Survey maps it on the Del Bonita quadrangle.

Del Bonita within Glacier County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Del Bonita between 1992 and 2017, burning about 275 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
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Natural1

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
13 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreBlackfeet AgencySWANSON
6 August 2007Naturalunder an acreBlackfeet AgencyFARMERS FIRE
28 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBlackfeet AgencyRADAR FIRE
30 March 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined250 acresBlackfeet AgencyLYTLE
24 October 2017Equipment and vehicle use3.7 acresBlackfeet AgencyMILK RIVER
24 October 1992Equipment and vehicle use20 acresBlackfeet AgencyFITZGERALD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Glacier County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Del Bonita: 2 occurrences, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Titanium, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Kennedy CouleeIron, TitaniumOccurrence
Radar Station DepositIron, TitaniumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Glacier County

Storms near this place

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Del Bonita in 4 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2022Thunderstorm WindDel Bonita-Ambient weather station by LJ Johnson Farms in Cut Bank reported 57 knot wind gust.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindDel Bonita-Measured at LJ Johnson Farms via ambient weather. temp dropped from 75 degrees to 55 degrees with passage of storm.
June 2014FloodDel Bonita-A couple feet of water was reported over Highway 213 near Del Bonita, MT.
August 2000HailDel Bonita-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Glacier 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
Big Sky Colony10.4 miles9
Sullivan (historical)13.9 miles9
Glendale Colony16.7 miles9
Seville Colony23.5 miles9
Douglas (historical)24.6 miles9
Zenith Colony25.2 miles11
Korner (historical)25.5 miles11
Wetzel26.1 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 770594. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.