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.
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
First National Bank of Geraldinelisted 2008
Geraldine Milwaukee Depotlisted 1997- Lonetreelisted 1980
- Shonkin Creek Bridgelisted 2012
Population over time
2 figuresGeraldine 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 261 | |
| 2020 | 207 | -54 (-21%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 1890 USGS Fort Benton quadrangle1:250000
- 1892 USGS Fort Benton quadrangle1:250000
- 1897 USGS Fort Benton quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Geraldine quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Fort Benton quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
3 since 2018Regional 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/undetermined | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 96 acres | Northeastern Land Office | not named |
| 20 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.7 acres | Judith Basin County | FDH-MTLG36-68 |
| 1 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | 80 acres | Chouteau County | FDH-MTLG19-47 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
38 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Geraldine | $5,000 | Trees and power lines down. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Geraldine | - | An ambient weather station reported 58 mph wind gust 11 miles NNE of Geraldine. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Geraldine | - | Wind gust of 54 kts measured. |
| June 2016 | Hail | Geraldine | - | A thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Geraldine. |
| June 2016 | Hail | Geraldine | - | A thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Geraldine. |
| August 2016 | Hail | Geraldine | - | A thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Geraldine 10S. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Geraldine | - | A tree was uprooted from thunderstorm winds. Nickel size hail was also reported. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Geraldine | - | Hail measuring 1.00 inches (quarter sized) was reported in Gerladine, MT. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Geraldine | - | Hail measuring 1.75 inches (golf ball sized) was reported in Geraldine, MT. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Geraldine | - | Quarter sized hail, measuring 1.00 inches, was reported 16 miles E of Geraldine. |
| July 2009 | Hail | Geraldine | - | A severe thunderstorm dropped 1.75 inch diameter hail at Geraldine 14E. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Geraldine | - | A thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 60 mph at Geraldine 1NNE. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Geraldine | - | A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 60 mph at Geraldine 18E. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Geraldine | - | A severe thunderstorm dropped .88 inch diameter hail at Geraldine. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Geraldine | - | A severe thunderstorm dropped .75 inch diameter hail at Geraldine 2N. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Geraldine | - | A severe thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Geraldine 2W. |
| May 2007 | Hail | Geraldine | - | A severe thunderstorm dropped .75 inch diameter hail at Geraldine 8NE. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Geraldine | - | Reported by spotter in Geraldine. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Geraldine | - | Actual spotter location Geraldine 13 W. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Geraldine | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Geraldine | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Geraldine | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Geraldine | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Geraldine | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Geraldine | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Geraldine | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Geraldine | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Geraldine | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Geraldine | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Geraldine | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Hail | Geraldine | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Hail | Geraldine | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Hail | Geraldine | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Funnel Cloud | Geraldine | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Geraldine | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Geraldine | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Geraldine | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Geraldine | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lonetree (historical) | 4.4 miles | 13 | |
| Square Butte | 7.1 miles | 13 | |
| Montague | 11.3 miles | 13 | |
| Patterson (historical) | 16.2 miles | 13 | |
| Shonkin | 16.4 miles | 13 | |
| Big Sag | 23.7 miles | 13 | |
| Lippard | 24.9 miles | 14 | |
| Ophir (historical) | 25.2 miles | 14 |
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 Geraldine | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q961289 | 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 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.






