BlockHesper, Montana
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Laurel census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59106. The Survey maps it on the Mossmain quadrangle. It stands 3,327 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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 Billings quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Mossmain quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Billings quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Billings quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Billings quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
74 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Hesper between 1996 and 2020, burning about 3,332 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 62 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Yellowstone County | SE 1121 SHILOH CROSSING BLVD |
| 11 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southern Land Office | I-90 MM 437 |
| 9 August 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Miles City Field Office | HOMEWARD P |
| 8 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southern Land Office | MM 443 |
| 7 August 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.6 acres | Southern Land Office | CENTRAL AVE AT S. 64TH ST |
| 30 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southern Land Office | 1505 LENHARDT LN/GRAND AVE |
| 24 August 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Miles City Field Office | ANDY |
| 2 August 1996 | Smoking | 2,948 acres | Crow Agency | TOLLUCA |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hesper in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2014: 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2014 | Hail | Hesper | - | no account filed |
| September 2013 | Hail | Hesper | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Hesper | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Hesper | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5745780 | The 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 772359. 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.