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Geraldine, Montana

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Geraldine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59446. The Survey maps it on the Geraldine quadrangle. 207 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,136 feet above sea level.

Geraldine within Chouteau County

On record in Geraldine

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 4 records

Population over time

2 figures

Geraldine fell from 261 to 207 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
2010261
2020207-54 (-21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

3 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Geraldine between 2018 and 2020, burning about 181 acres in total. None 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/undetermined1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1

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
11 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use96 acresNortheastern Land Officenot named
20 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.7 acresJudith Basin CountyFDH-MTLG36-68
1 March 2020Debris and open burning80 acresChouteau CountyFDH-MTLG19-47

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chouteau County

Storms near this place

38 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Geraldine in 38 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 25 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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
May 1993Thunderstorm WindGeraldine$5,000Trees and power lines down.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindGeraldine-An ambient weather station reported 58 mph wind gust 11 miles NNE of Geraldine.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindGeraldine-Wind gust of 54 kts measured.
June 2016HailGeraldine-A thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Geraldine.
June 2016HailGeraldine-A thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Geraldine.
August 2016HailGeraldine-A thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Geraldine 10S.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindGeraldine-A tree was uprooted from thunderstorm winds. Nickel size hail was also reported.
July 2013HailGeraldine-Hail measuring 1.00 inches (quarter sized) was reported in Gerladine, MT.
July 2013HailGeraldine-Hail measuring 1.75 inches (golf ball sized) was reported in Geraldine, MT.
June 2012HailGeraldine-Quarter sized hail, measuring 1.00 inches, was reported 16 miles E of Geraldine.
July 2009HailGeraldine-A severe thunderstorm dropped 1.75 inch diameter hail at Geraldine 14E.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindGeraldine-A thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 60 mph at Geraldine 1NNE.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindGeraldine-A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 60 mph at Geraldine 18E.
July 2008HailGeraldine-A severe thunderstorm dropped .88 inch diameter hail at Geraldine.
June 2007HailGeraldine-A severe thunderstorm dropped .75 inch diameter hail at Geraldine 2N.
June 2007HailGeraldine-A severe thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Geraldine 2W.
May 2007HailGeraldine-A severe thunderstorm dropped .75 inch diameter hail at Geraldine 8NE.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindGeraldine-Reported by spotter in Geraldine.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindGeraldine-Actual spotter location Geraldine 13 W.
May 2006HailGeraldine-no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindGeraldine-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindGeraldine-no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindGeraldine-no account filed
August 2004HailGeraldine-no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindGeraldine-no account filed
July 2003HailGeraldine-no account filed
July 2000HailGeraldine-no account filed
July 2000HailGeraldine-no account filed
July 2000HailGeraldine-no account filed
July 2000HailGeraldine-no account filed
September 2000HailGeraldine-no account filed
September 2000HailGeraldine-no account filed
September 2000HailGeraldine-no account filed
September 2000Funnel CloudGeraldine-no account filed
June 1997HailGeraldine-no account filed
June 1997HailGeraldine-no account filed
June 1997HailGeraldine-no account filed
June 1997HailGeraldine-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chouteau 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
Lonetree (historical)4.4 miles13
Square Butte7.1 miles13
Montague11.3 miles13
Patterson (historical)16.2 miles13
Shonkin16.4 miles13
Big Sag23.7 miles13
Lippard24.9 miles14
Ophir (historical)25.2 miles14

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 GeraldineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q961289The 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 771740. 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.