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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.

Dell within Beaverhead County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

10 since 1992

Regional 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
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreDillon Field OfficeDIXON MOUNTAIN
5 September 2001Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestDIXON MOUNTAIN
26 September 1994Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National Forestnot named
4 August 1998Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreCentral Land OfficeMARY FITCH
28 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresCentral Land Officenot named
3 June 2004Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestDIXON
3 June 2004Naturalunder an acreCentral Land Officenot named
4 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBeaverhead CountyI-15 M.P. 26-27 IN MEDIAN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Beaverhead County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Dry CanyonPhosphorus-PhosphatesOccurrence

Every working recorded in Beaverhead County

Storms near this place

1 since 1999

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1999HailDell-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Beaverhead 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
Kidd6.1 miles11
Lima8.2 miles11
Red Rock13.8 miles10
Nicholia (historical)17.5 miles10
Hildreth18.4 miles12
Armstead (historical)19.4 miles10
Monida23.2 miles10
Grayling23.3 miles16

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 DellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4157086The 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.