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Hathaway, Montana

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Rosebud census division. It stands on Graveyard Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hathaway quadrangle. It stands 2,441 feet above sea level.

Hathaway within Rosebud County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Hathaway between 1998 and 2020, burning about 225 acres in total. 3 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
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Fireworks1
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
18 September 1998Natural100 acresMiles City Field OfficeMOON CREEK
16 August 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreEastern Land OfficeGRAVEYARD
13 August 2020Natural3.2 acresCuster CountyTHEADE
4 July 2017Fireworksunder an acreEastern Land OfficeHATHWAY
30 July 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMiles City Field OfficeHATHAWAY
12 July 2006Natural120 acresMiles City Field OfficeIRON JAW
7 May 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreRosebud CountyI94MM113 - ROSEBUD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rosebud County

Storms near this place

20 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hathaway in 20 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 flash flood, 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 2010Flash FloodHathaway$130,000Thunderstorms producing heavy rains (on what was already saturated ground from thunderstorms the previous day) produced flash flooding over portions of Southwestern Custer County and Northwestern Powder river County. Smaller creeks flooded and Highway 566 was closed from Birney to Ashland due to water and debris running over the road. Road damage was reported throughout Custer County.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindHathaway-From montana dot weather station.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindHathaway-Mesonet station mtswc at 5.2 W Hathaway.
June 2023HailHathaway-The hail caused damage to multiple vehicles and buildings on the property.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindHathaway-Mile marker signs and satellite dish blown over
July 2001Flash FloodHathaway-Excessive rain with water running over some roads and creeks running bankfull.
July 2001HailHathaway-Baseball size hail with 70 to 80 mph winds resulting in broken windows
August 2000Thunderstorm WindHathaway-60 mph thunderstorm wind gust resulting in a brief power outage
July 1999Thunderstorm WindHathaway-Spotter estimated 60 mph wind gust.
June 2024Funnel CloudHathaway-no account filed
May 2023HailHathaway-no account filed
August 2023Thunderstorm WindHathaway-no account filed
May 2020Thunderstorm WindHathaway-no account filed
August 2019Thunderstorm WindHathaway-no account filed
July 2018Thunderstorm WindHathaway-no account filed
May 2013HailHathaway-no account filed
May 2007HailHathaway-no account filed
June 2002HailHathaway-no account filed
July 1996HailHathaway-no account filed
August 1995HailHathaway-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rosebud 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
Thurlow5.9 miles9
Rosebud13.1 miles8
Cartersville14.4 miles8
Albright (historical)15.5 miles8
Crain Place17.1 miles8
Sabra (historical)17.9 miles8
Flynn18.3 miles9
Orinoco21.0 miles9

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 HathawayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18152791The 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 772196. 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.