Dell, Montana
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Clark Canyon-Horse Prairie census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59724. It stands on Big Sheep Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dell quadrangle. 17 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,004 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 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.
- 1955 USGS Dubois quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Dubois quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Dell quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1987 USGS Lima quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Lima quadrangle1:100000
- 1997 USGS Dell quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
10 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Dell between 1992 and 2019, burning about 3 acres in total. 4 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 | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Dillon Field Office | DIXON MOUNTAIN |
| 5 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | DIXON MOUNTAIN |
| 26 September 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | not named |
| 4 August 1998 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Central Land Office | MARY FITCH |
| 28 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Central Land Office | not named |
| 3 June 2004 | Natural | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | DIXON |
| 3 June 2004 | Natural | under an acre | Central Land Office | not named |
| 4 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Beaverhead County | I-15 M.P. 26-27 IN MEDIAN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Dell: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dry Canyon | Phosphorus-Phosphates | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
1 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dell in 1 storm report in 1999: 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1999 | Hail | Dell | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kidd | 6.1 miles | 11 | |
| Lima | 8.2 miles | 11 | |
| Red Rock | 13.8 miles | 10 | |
| Nicholia (historical) | 17.5 miles | 10 | |
| Hildreth | 18.4 miles | 12 | |
| Armstead (historical) | 19.4 miles | 10 | |
| Monida | 23.2 miles | 10 | |
| Grayling | 23.3 miles | 16 |
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 Dell | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4157086 | 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 782283. 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.





