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Fromberg, Montana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Fromberg-Bridger census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59029. It stands on Bluewater Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fromberg quadrangle. 392 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,533 feet above sea level.

Fromberg within Carbon County

On record in Fromberg

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 12 of 18 shown

Every listing in Carbon County

Population over time

2 figures

Fromberg fell from 438 to 392 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010438
2020392-46 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

20 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Fromberg between 2001 and 2020, burning about 732 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural3

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
22 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresCarbon CountyBLUE WATER
5 August 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouthern Land Office235 LOWER RIVER RD
5 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthern Land Office824 COONEY DAM
4 August 2001Natural5.0 acresMiles City Field OfficeWHEAT
22 August 2019Natural1.0 acresCarbon County19-9347
14 August 2006Natural30 acresCuster Gallatin National ForestCUTACROSS
23 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined110 acresSouthern Land OfficeCOW CREEK
2 July 2010Equipment and vehicle use274 acresBillings Field OfficeBLUEWATER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Storms near this place

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fromberg in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2019: 7 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
July 2013Flash FloodFromberg-There was a partial washout on Cherry Springs Road, as well as debris covering Selms Road.
May 2001HailFromberg-.88 inch hail reported by law enforcement.
May 2001HailFromberg-.75 inch hail...with hail 1 1/2 feet deep. Reported by spotters.
July 1999HailFromberg-Spotter report of hail as large as ping pong ball size.
July 1998HailFromberg-Dime to quarter sized hail reported.
July 2019HailFromberg-no account filed
July 2019HailFromberg-no account filed
June 2004HailFromberg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carbon 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
Coalville (historical)1.0 miles10
Edgar5.8 miles10
Bridger6.7 miles10
Joliet7.3 miles10
Cherry Springs (historical)7.5 miles10
Montaqua8.1 miles10
Rockvale9.3 miles9
Boyd9.6 miles11

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 FrombergAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q965148The 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 771648. 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.