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Garryowen, Montana

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Crow Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59031. It lies near Medicine Tail Coulee. The Survey maps it on the Crow Agency quadrangle. It stands 3,118 feet above sea level.

Garryowen within Big Horn County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

344 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 344 fires within 5 miles of Garryowen between 1992 and 2020, burning about 13,583 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 31 were 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/undetermined85
Debris and open burning64
Equipment and vehicle use40
Railroad operations and maintenance34
Fireworks34
Arson/incendiarism31
Smoking21
Natural16
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Other causes3
Firearms and explosives use1
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCrow AgencyPOPCORN
7 September 2017Smokingunder an acreCrow AgencyHALF
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCrow AgencyNEAL
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCrow AgencyROADSIDE 492
5 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreCrow AgencySEPTEMBER
5 September 1995Smoking2,500 acresLittle Bighorn Battlefield National MonumentBATTLEFIEL
5 September 1994Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreCrow Agencynot named
4 September 2002Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreCrow AgencyROUND HALL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Big Horn County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Garryowen: 2 unknowns, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Bentonite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unnamed BentoniteClayOccurrence
Unnamed Bentonite OccurrenceBentoniteOccurrence
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Big Horn County

Storms near this place

11 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garryowen in 11 storm reports between 2002 and 2020: 8 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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 2015Thunderstorm WindGarryowen-Strong winds and heavy rain lasted for 30 minutes.
March 2013Thunderstorm WindGarryowen-A 5 inch flagpole was snapped in half by strong winds estimated to exceed 70 mph.
June 2006HailGarryowen-Two windows broken along with extensive siding damage on the west side of house.
June 2005HailGarryowen-Car windows broken on Interstate 90
July 2020HailGarryowen-no account filed
August 2019HailGarryowen-no account filed
June 2015HailGarryowen-no account filed
May 2014HailGarryowen-no account filed
June 2006HailGarryowen-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindGarryowen-no account filed
June 2002HailGarryowen-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Big Horn 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
Benteen5.0 miles13
Crow Agency5.6 miles7
Dunmore11.4 miles12
Lodge Grass14.9 miles13
Saint Xavier16.6 miles13
Hardin17.5 miles12
Forty Mile Colony18.1 miles13
Spear22.7 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 GarryowenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q965380The 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 771723. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.