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.
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.
- 1889 USGS Big Snowy Mountain quadrangle1:250000
- 1893 USGS Big Snowy Mountain quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Roundup quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Roundup quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1970 USGS Forestgrove quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1993 USGS Big Snowy Mountains quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
6 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 August 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 300 acres | Northeastern Land Office | not named |
| 19 August 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Northeastern Land Office | REDDING RANCH |
| 17 August 1996 | Natural | 200 acres | North Central Montana District | FA 7 |
| 25 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.6 acres | Fergus County | SMOKE 81 - FOREST GROVE |
| 5 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Northeastern Land Office | not named |
| 4 October 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 acres | Fergus County | FDH-MTLG08-347 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
24 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | Hail | Forestgrove | - | Time estimated based on radar imagery. |
| May 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Forestgrove | - | Spotter reported wind gusts estimated between 50 and 60 mph with pea sized hail. Trees had leaf damage. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Forestgrove | - | AWOS station K1NM November measured a 55 kt (63 mph) thunderstorm wind gust. |
| August 2019 | Hail | Forestgrove | - | 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 2019 | Heavy Rain | Forestgrove | - | Heavy rain of .83 inches reported on the north slope of the snowy Mountains. Location estimated. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Forestgrove | - | Facebook video of hail up to quarter-size falling 10-miles WSW of Forestgrove. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Forestgrove | - | Public reported half dollar-size hail and broken windows on north side of buildings 8-miles W of Forestgrove. Time estimated from radar. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Forestgrove | - | Spotter 7-miles west of Forestgrove reported small hail with a few quarter-size hailstones mixed-in. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Forestgrove | - | Spotter 1-mile west of Forestgrove reported hail up to quarter-size. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Forestgrove | - | Public report of roof ripped off barn by wind gusts from thunderstorm 8-miles W of Forestgrove. Time estimated from radar. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Forestgrove | - | AWOS reported 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust. |
| June 2016 | Hail | Forestgrove | - | 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 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Forestgrove | - | A thunderstorm produced a gust to 59 mph at Forestgrove 13SSE. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Forestgrove | - | Hail measuring 1.00 inches (quarter sized) was reported covering the ground. |
| August 2013 | Heavy Rain | Forestgrove | - | Heavy rain measuring 1.63 inches in 24 hours was reported at the Little Snowy RAWS 17 miles S of Forestgrove, MT. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Forestgrove | - | Quarter sized hail, measuring 1.00 inches, was reported 2 miles W of Forestgrove. |
| July 2010 | Hail | Forestgrove | - | A thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Forestgrove 6WSW. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Forestgrove | - | 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 2008 | Hail | Forestgrove | - | A severe thunderstorm dropped 1.75 inch diameter hail at Forest Grove. |
| July 2002 | Hail | Forestgrove | - | A severe thunderstorm produced 0.75 inch hail at Forestgrove 10S. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Forestgrove | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Forestgrove | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Hail | Forestgrove | - | no account filed |
| September 1997 | Hail | Forestgrove | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Novary (historical) | 5.4 miles | 13 | |
| Cheadle (historical) | 6.1 miles | 13 | |
| Piper | 6.4 miles | 11 | |
| Dryland (historical) | 7.1 miles | 8 | |
| Ayers Ranch Colony | 8.1 miles | 8 | |
| Becket | 8.3 miles | 6 | |
| Skaggs (historical) | 8.7 miles | 13 | |
| Heath | 9.9 miles | 12 |
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 Forestgrove | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5468884 | 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 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.





