Hedgesville, Montana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Judith Gap-Shawmut census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59078. It stands on Roberts Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hedgesville quadrangle.

Hedgesville within Wheatland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1889 USGS Big Snowy Mountain quadrangle1:250000
1893 USGS Big Snowy Mountain quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Roundup quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Roundup quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Hedgesville quadrangle1:24000
1993 USGS Harlowton quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

3 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Hedgesville between 2018 and 2019, burning about 7 acres in total. 1 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
Natural	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
18 August 2018	Natural	under an acre	Northeastern Land Office	not named
23 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Wheatland County	WHEATLAND 249
21 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Northeastern Land Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Wheatland County

Storms near this place

6 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hedgesville in 6 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 6 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2025	Hail	Hedgesville	-	Reported by spotter.
June 2019	Hail	Hedgesville	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Hedgesville	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Hedgesville	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Hedgesville	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Hedgesville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wheatland 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
Shawmut	8.0 miles	11
Winnecook	9.4 miles	11
Living Springs	9.5 miles	11
Springwater Colony	13.4 miles	11
Harlowton	17.6 miles	11
Judith Gap	20.1 miles	12
Duncan Ranch Colony	27.6 miles	16
Twodot	30.3 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 772306. 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.