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Forestgrove, Montana

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Grass Range census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59457. It stands on Surenough Creek. The Survey maps it on the Forestgrove quadrangle. It stands 4,075 feet above sea level.

Forestgrove within Fergus 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

6 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Forestgrove between 1992 and 2020, burning about 522 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
28 August 2017Equipment and vehicle use300 acresNortheastern Land Officenot named
19 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresNortheastern Land OfficeREDDING RANCH
17 August 1996Natural200 acresNorth Central Montana DistrictFA 7
25 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.6 acresFergus CountySMOKE 81 - FOREST GROVE
5 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNortheastern Land Officenot named
4 October 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined13 acresFergus CountyFDH-MTLG08-347

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fergus County

Storms near this place

24 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Forestgrove in 24 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 15 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2025HailForestgrove-Time estimated based on radar imagery.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindForestgrove-Spotter reported wind gusts estimated between 50 and 60 mph with pea sized hail. Trees had leaf damage.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindForestgrove-AWOS station K1NM November measured a 55 kt (63 mph) thunderstorm wind gust.
August 2019HailForestgrove-A trained spotter stated that the hail size started out as marble sized but then increased to the size of quarters (1 inch diameter). Hail was covering the ground at the time of the report.
July 2019Heavy RainForestgrove-Heavy rain of .83 inches reported on the north slope of the snowy Mountains. Location estimated.
June 2018HailForestgrove-Facebook video of hail up to quarter-size falling 10-miles WSW of Forestgrove.
June 2018HailForestgrove-Public reported half dollar-size hail and broken windows on north side of buildings 8-miles W of Forestgrove. Time estimated from radar.
June 2018HailForestgrove-Spotter 7-miles west of Forestgrove reported small hail with a few quarter-size hailstones mixed-in.
June 2018HailForestgrove-Spotter 1-mile west of Forestgrove reported hail up to quarter-size.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindForestgrove-Public report of roof ripped off barn by wind gusts from thunderstorm 8-miles W of Forestgrove. Time estimated from radar.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindForestgrove-AWOS reported 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
June 2016HailForestgrove-A thunderstorm dropped 1.75 inch diameter hail at Forestgrove 12NNE. Also, 1 inch hail fell at Grass Range 11N and 1.5 inch hail fell at Grass Range 10N.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindForestgrove-A thunderstorm produced a gust to 59 mph at Forestgrove 13SSE.
June 2014HailForestgrove-Hail measuring 1.00 inches (quarter sized) was reported covering the ground.
August 2013Heavy RainForestgrove-Heavy rain measuring 1.63 inches in 24 hours was reported at the Little Snowy RAWS 17 miles S of Forestgrove, MT.
June 2012HailForestgrove-Quarter sized hail, measuring 1.00 inches, was reported 2 miles W of Forestgrove.
July 2010HailForestgrove-A thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Forestgrove 6WSW.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindForestgrove-A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 70 mph at Forest Grove 6NNE. Tree limbs 4 to 6 inches in diameter were broken.
June 2008HailForestgrove-A severe thunderstorm dropped 1.75 inch diameter hail at Forest Grove.
July 2002HailForestgrove-A severe thunderstorm produced 0.75 inch hail at Forestgrove 10S.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindForestgrove-no account filed
July 2000HailForestgrove-no account filed
September 2000HailForestgrove-no account filed
September 1997HailForestgrove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fergus 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
Novary (historical)5.4 miles13
Cheadle (historical)6.1 miles13
Piper6.4 miles11
Dryland (historical)7.1 miles8
Ayers Ranch Colony8.1 miles8
Becket8.3 miles6
Skaggs (historical)8.7 miles13
Heath9.9 miles12

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 ForestgroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5468884The 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 806282. 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.