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Hobson, Montana

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Hobson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59452. The Survey maps it on the Kolin quadrangle. 179 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,098 feet above sea level.

Hobson within Judith Basin County

On record in Hobson

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Hobson fell from 215 to 179 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010215
2020179-36 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

2 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Hobson in 2020, burning about 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Natural1

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
5 September 2020Natural4.5 acresJudith Basin CountyFDH-MTLG36-328
25 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresJudith Basin CountyFDH-MTLG36-156

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Judith Basin County

Storms near this place

41 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hobson in 41 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 27 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 heavy rain, 3 tornado. 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
June 2025HailHobson-Spotter reports golf ball to egg size hail. Tree damage was also observed.
June 2025HailHobson-Golf ball to egg size hail reported. Additionally, hail damage to vehicle and campers was reported.
June 2024HailHobson-Trained spotter reported 1 to 2 inch hail with torrential rainfall. The hail completely covered the ground, making it white.
June 2024HailHobson-Trained spotter reports golf ball sized hail.
July 2022Heavy RainHobson-Trained spotter reported heavy rainfall from thunderstorms.
July 2022HailHobson-Hail around quarter size falling near Hobson. Report from a storm chaser.
July 2022HailHobson-Trained spotter reported hail up to golf ball size falling in Hobson.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindHobson-Strong wind gusts estimated around 60mph with sustained winds around 30 to 40 MPH.
June 2021HailHobson-Spotter reports 1 to 1.25 inch hail south of Hobson near Black Bull RD.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindHobson-Trained spotter estimates 52 kt (60 mph) thunderstorm wind gust by sway of trees, dense blowing dust along with near visibility was also observed.
June 2019HailHobson-One inch hail measured by trained spotter.
July 2019HailHobson-Trained spotter reported 1 inch sized hail.
July 2019Heavy RainHobson-Trained spotter reported .74 inches of rain in about 20 minutes.
June 2017HailHobson-Trained Spotter reported nickel to quarter sized hail.
August 2014Heavy RainHobson-Heavy rain, measuring 3.70 inches in 24 hours, was reported.
August 2014Heavy RainHobson-Heavy rain, measuring 5.89 inches storm total, was reported.
June 2014Heavy RainHobson-Heavy rainfall of 1.25 inches was reported.
July 2013HailHobson-Hail measuring 1.00 inches (quarter sized) was reported 5 mi SE of Hobson, MT.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindHobson-A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 65 mph at Hobson 4S.
June 2007HailHobson-A severe thunderstorm dropped .75 inch diameter hail at Hobson 3NE.
July 2002HailHobson-A severe thunderstorm produced 1.75 inch hail and a funnel cloud near Hobson.
June 2002Tornado (F0)Hobson-A severe thunderstorm moved across the far eastern portions of Judith Basin County and into the far western sections of Fergus county around 2000 MST. Wind gusts to near 70 mph were reported from Hobson to Hilger, with 60 mph winds recorded in Lewistown A tornado did touch down just west of Buffalo at approximately 2000 MST, and then moved northeast into central Fergus county. The tornado finally dissipated about 10 miles southeast of Moore. This tornado made several brief touchdowns, and was an F0. The longest tornado path on the ground was less than one half mile. Wind gusts between 60 and 70 mph were reported along the entire path. One shed was destroyed, and the remainder of the damage was limited to objects not secured down. Near 1930 MST, a small ultra-light plane was damaged while trying to land south of Lewistown. Wind gusts were estimated near 60 mph.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindHobson-A severe thunderstorm produced a 66 mph wind gust in Hobson.
June 2001HailHobson-Actual spotter location is Hobson 16 SW.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindHobson-Hobson spotter.
July 2001HailHobson-Actual event location Hobson 16 SW.
July 1997HailHobson-HAIL COVERED ROADS BETWEEN HOBSON AND MOORE (FERGUS COUNTY).
June 2004HailHobson-no account filed
July 2003HailHobson-no account filed
July 2000HailHobson-no account filed
July 2000HailHobson-no account filed
August 1999Tornado (F0)Hobson-no account filed
August 1999HailHobson-no account filed
June 1999HailHobson-no account filed
August 1999HailHobson-no account filed
August 1998Tornado (F0)Hobson-no account filed
August 1998Thunderstorm WindHobson-no account filed
June 1998HailHobson-no account filed
August 1997HailHobson-no account filed
July 1997HailHobson-no account filed
June 1997HailHobson-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Judith Basin 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
Hauck3.7 miles11
Moccasin4.1 miles8
Philbrook (historical)5.3 miles11
Sipple8.0 miles11
Kolin9.1 miles8
Benchland9.3 miles13
Utica11.7 miles16
Windham15.1 miles13

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 HobsonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q964248The 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 772435. 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.