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Hall, Montana

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Drummond census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59837. The Survey maps it on the Hall quadrangle.

Hall within Granite County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Hall between 1999 and 2018, burning about 24 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
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
3 September 2001Debris and open burning7.0 acresSouthwestern Land Officenot named
30 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use15 acresSouthwestern Land OfficeCOBERLY GULCH
9 July 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresSouthwestern Land Officenot named
23 October 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreSouthwestern Land OfficeDRINGLE LANE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Granite County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Hall: 5 occurrences, 4 unknowns, 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Pumice, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Diatomite, Gold. 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
Lower Willow Creek PlacerGoldProspect
New ChicagoDiatomiteUnknown
Unnamed Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unnamed Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unnamed Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Bowles PumicitePumicePast Producer
Southwest Drummond Pumice DepositPumiceOccurrencePumice
Sugarloaf Pumice DepositPumiceOccurrencePumice
Unnamed Pumice DepositPumiceOccurrence
Unnamed Pumice DepositPumiceOccurrence

Every working recorded in Granite County

Storms near this place

5 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hall in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2018: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 2018HailHall-Approximately fifteen hours after the event, NWS employees found hail near the size of quarters on the side of a building in Hall. There was also evidence of very heavy rain with this storm.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindHall-Several 6 inch diameter limbs blown down from a tall and very sturdy tree in the location of the inflow of a supercell thunderstorm.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindHall-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated up to 60 mph.
August 2004HailHall-no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindHall-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Granite 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
Sherryl2.5 miles20
New Chicago4.1 miles19
Stone5.7 miles20
Drummond6.2 miles19
Bradman7.9 miles19
Haskell (historical)8.3 miles20
Ozan8.3 miles19
Maxville8.6 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 784477. 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.