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Epsie, Montana

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Broadus census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59317. It stands on Wiser Creek. The Survey maps it on the Epsie quadrangle.

Epsie within Powder River County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

4 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Epsie between 1994 and 2017, burning about 8,413 acres in total. 3 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
Natural3
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
25 August 1994Natural3.0 acresMiles City Field OfficeZIER
12 August 2007Natural7,708 acresMiles City Field OfficeROAD CREEK
11 August 2003Natural687 acresMiles City Field OfficeROUGH CRK
26 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresEastern Land OfficeMIZPAH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Powder River County

Storms near this place

32 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Epsie in 32 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 27 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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
June 2025HailEpsie-One inch hail reported.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindEpsie-Estimated gust by spotter.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindEpsie-A metal roof was blown off a shed and into the corrals resulting in damage to the corrals. A door was blown off a shed.
August 2013Tornado (EF0)Epsie-The tornado was reported just west of Wolf Mountain and north of Post, Montana and Rough Creek. There was plenty of debris along with hail damage east of town along Highway 59. Hail accompanied the supercell thunderstorm and was reported to be golf ball to softball size.
June 2011Funnel CloudEpsie-Storm spotter reported a brief funnel cloud about 9 miles west of Broadus.
July 2010HailEpsie-Marble to quarter size hail covered the ground.
June 2005Flash FloodEpsie-Washed out culvert near Epsie and Mile Marker 94.5 on Highway 212 west of Broadus due to a heavy thunderstorm. Highway 212 from just northwest of Broadus to Ashland was closed for 22 hours after the flash flood.
May 2021HailEpsie-no account filed
July 2020HailEpsie-no account filed
July 2019HailEpsie-no account filed
July 2019HailEpsie-no account filed
June 2018HailEpsie-no account filed
June 2018HailEpsie-no account filed
April 2018HailEpsie-no account filed
June 2018HailEpsie-no account filed
June 2018HailEpsie-no account filed
June 2018HailEpsie-no account filed
August 2017HailEpsie-no account filed
August 2016HailEpsie-no account filed
June 2015HailEpsie-no account filed
September 2015HailEpsie-no account filed
August 2014HailEpsie-no account filed
August 2014HailEpsie-no account filed
August 2014HailEpsie-no account filed
July 2013HailEpsie-no account filed
August 2012HailEpsie-no account filed
June 2010HailEpsie-no account filed
June 2010HailEpsie-no account filed
August 2008HailEpsie-no account filed
June 2005HailEpsie-no account filed
May 2004HailEpsie-no account filed
June 2002HailEpsie-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Powder River 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
Olive7.7 miles7
Sonnette11.0 miles10
Broadus13.3 miles8
Moores (historical)15.7 miles8
Coalwood16.6 miles7
Stacey20.2 miles9
Cameron Crossing20.8 miles7
Sayle25.8 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 771234. 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.