Glentana, Montana

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Opheim census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59240. The Survey maps it on the Glentana East quadrangle.

Glentana within Valley 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.

1954 USGS Glasgow quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Glasgow quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Glasgow quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1973 USGS Glentana East quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Opheim quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

2 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Glentana in 2020, burning about 8 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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
31 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Valley County	FDH-MTLG20-177
28 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Valley County	FDH-MTLG20-183

Every fire recorded in Valley County

Storms near this place

23 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glentana in 23 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 16 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 tornado. 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
August 2000	Hail	Glentana	$50,000	no account filed
September 2025	Hail	Glentana	-	Trained spotter in the town of Richland reported quarter size hail and heavy rain. Hail accumulated to a depth of 5 inches.
August 2024	Hail	Glentana	-	A trained spotter reported hail up to the size of quarters.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Glentana	-	A trained spotter reported that a tree was slightly uprooted. Winds were estimated at 70 mph.
June 2022	Hail	Glentana	-	A trained spotter reported quarter to golf ball size hail.
July 2022	Tornado (EF2)	Glentana	-	The tornado touched down 5.5 miles southwest of Glentana at 5:47 PM MDT, moving to the northeast and directly impacting the town of Glentana at 5:53 MDT. Several blue spruce trees were uprooted, several grain hopper bins and some garages and farm machine buildings were destroyed. The roof from a house was blown off. The Glentana Hall metal roof peeled off on the south side. Multiple farm machinery equipment were damaged. Some straight line wind damage including one dozen power poles snapped, was observed 0.5 miles south of the path of the tornado on South Glentana Road. The tornado continued toward the northeast and lifted at 5:56 PM MDT, 2.4 miles northeast of Glentana.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Glentana	-	At the mesonet site located 10 NNE Glentana (FW2113), a 60 mph wind gust was recorded.
July 2018	Hail	Glentana	-	Public reported quarter size hail.
June 2016	Hail	Glentana	-	Trained spotter reported quarter sized hail.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Glentana	-	Trained spotter estimated 80 mph winds which blew off a shop door.
July 2014	Hail	Glentana	-	Trained spotter reported penny-sized hail. Event time estimated.
August 2011	Funnel Cloud	Glentana	-	One public source reported seeing multiple repeated funnel clouds before the onset of heavy rain.
August 2007	Hail	Glentana	-	The hail ranged in size from nickel to quarter.
July 2005	Hail	Glentana	-	Hail covered the ground.
August 2010	Hail	Glentana	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Glentana	-	no account filed
August 2008	Hail	Glentana	-	no account filed
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Glentana	-	no account filed
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Glentana	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Glentana	-	no account filed
August 2000	Hail	Glentana	-	no account filed
July 1999	Hail	Glentana	-	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	Glentana	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Valley 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Opheim	8.4 miles	7
Richland	10.7 miles	7
Avondale (historical)	13.1 miles	7
Roanwood	14.7 miles	7
Wild Rose (historical)	15.3 miles	7
Baylor	17.6 miles	7
Larslan	18.8 miles	7
Kansas Flat (historical)	20.8 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 771808. 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.