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Hammond, Montana

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Alzada-Boyes census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59332. The Survey maps it on the Hammond quadrangle. It stands 3,711 feet above sea level.

Hammond within Carter County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Hammond between 1994 and 2017, burning about 6,738 acres in total. 5 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
Natural5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined5,000 acresEastern Land OfficeCUNNINGHAM
10 September 2012Natural1.6 acresMiles City Field OfficeHAMMOND
27 August 2003Natural1,140 acresMiles City Field OfficeGOSSELIN
17 August 2016Naturalunder an acreEastern Land OfficeDUNCAN - POWDER RIVER
12 August 2017Natural2.5 acresMiles City Field OfficeHARRINGTON
16 July 2003Natural594 acresMiles City Field OfficeASH DRAW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carter County

Storms near this place

19 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hammond in 19 storm reports between 2000 and 2020: 11 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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
March 2019FloodHammond-Many areas across the eastern half of the county experienced flooding. County Department of Emergency Services reported that two major tributaries flowing into Box Elder Creek and the Little Missouri River resulted in both of these waterways to flow out of their banks near Albion and Ekalaka. In addition, Highway 323 near Bell Tower was closed due to flood waters crossing the highway.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindHammond-An outbuilding was blown over and there was quite a bit of tree and garden damage from the wind.
June 2015HailHammond-The public reported softball size hail 2 miles north of Hammond on Crow Creek Road.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindHammond-A spotter estimated a 60 mph wind gust.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindHammond-Tree branches were down across a road.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindHammond-An estimated wind gust of 70 mph was reported 20 miles NW of Alzada. Tree tops were torn off and the spotter could feel the house shake.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindHammond-A wind gust of 70 mph was estimated 8 miles ESE of Hammond. Winds downed 6 to 8 inch diameter limbs off a Cottonwood tree.
June 2011HailHammond-Spotter reported golf ball size hail on Highway 212 west of Alzada.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindHammond-An estimated wind gust of 90 mph was reported in Hammond.
May 2020HailHammond-no account filed
August 2019HailHammond-no account filed
July 2019Thunderstorm WindHammond-no account filed
July 2018HailHammond-no account filed
June 2018HailHammond-no account filed
June 2011HailHammond-no account filed
August 2008HailHammond-no account filed
August 2008HailHammond-no account filed
June 2008HailHammond-no account filed
June 2000HailHammond-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carter 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
Boyes6.7 miles8
Ridge13.5 miles8
Ridgeway28.0 miles8
Alzada30.2 miles8
Chalk Buttes (historical)31.4 miles9
Albion34.1 miles8
Prairie Dale (historical)39.3 miles8
Belltower40.4 miles8

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 HammondAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5645821The 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 772106. 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.