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.
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
Dr. Theodore J. Benson Houselisted 1993
John Blewett Houselisted 1993
Bluewater Creek Bridgelisted 2011
Frank Brooder Houselisted 1993
Fromberg Concrete Arch Bridgelisted 1993
Fromberg Methodist-Episcopal Churchlisted 1993
Fromberg Opera Houselisted 1993
Gebo Barnlisted 2005
Gebo Cemeterylisted 1993
John Gibson Houselisted 1993
Samuel Greenblatt Houselisted 1993
IOOF Hall and Fromberg Co-operative Mercantile Buildinglisted 1993
Population over time
2 figuresFromberg 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 438 | |
| 2020 | 392 | -46 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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.
- 1954 USGS Billings quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Fromberg quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Billings quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Billings quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Bridger quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
20 since 2001Regional 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/undetermined | 13 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Carbon County | BLUE WATER |
| 5 August 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Southern Land Office | 235 LOWER RIVER RD |
| 5 August 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southern Land Office | 824 COONEY DAM |
| 4 August 2001 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Miles City Field Office | WHEAT |
| 22 August 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Carbon County | 19-9347 |
| 14 August 2006 | Natural | 30 acres | Custer Gallatin National Forest | CUTACROSS |
| 23 July 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 110 acres | Southern Land Office | COW CREEK |
| 2 July 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 274 acres | Billings Field Office | BLUEWATER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2013 | Flash Flood | Fromberg | - | There was a partial washout on Cherry Springs Road, as well as debris covering Selms Road. |
| May 2001 | Hail | Fromberg | - | .88 inch hail reported by law enforcement. |
| May 2001 | Hail | Fromberg | - | .75 inch hail...with hail 1 1/2 feet deep. Reported by spotters. |
| July 1999 | Hail | Fromberg | - | Spotter report of hail as large as ping pong ball size. |
| July 1998 | Hail | Fromberg | - | Dime to quarter sized hail reported. |
| July 2019 | Hail | Fromberg | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Fromberg | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Fromberg | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coalville (historical) | 1.0 miles | 10 | |
| Edgar | 5.8 miles | 10 | |
| Bridger | 6.7 miles | 10 | |
| Joliet | 7.3 miles | 10 | |
| Cherry Springs (historical) | 7.5 miles | 10 | |
| Montaqua | 8.1 miles | 10 | |
| Rockvale | 9.3 miles | 9 | |
| Boyd | 9.6 miles | 11 |
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 Fromberg | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q965148 | 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 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.




