Hoyt, Montana

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Glendive census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59326. It stands on Cabin Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hoyt quadrangle.

Hoyt within Dawson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1953 USGS Miles City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Miles City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Miles City quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Hoyt quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Wibaux quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

4 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Hoyt between 2017 and 2020, burning about 252 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	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
15 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	246 acres	Eastern Land Office	CRACKER BOX
10 July 2018	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.2 acres	Eastern Land Office	FORSYTH SUB
9 June 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Dawson County	ASCHE - DAWSON
26 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.4 acres	Dawson County	ROADSIDE - DAWSON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dawson County

Storms near this place

33 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hoyt in 33 storm reports between 2001 and 2024: 14 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 6 flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Hoyt	-	The BLM Glendive mesonet site (MTM28) measured a 63 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Hoyt	-	The BLM Glendive mesonet site (MTM28) measured a 64 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Hoyt	-	The meso site (BRTM) measured a 64 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Hoyt	-	The BLM Glendive mesonet station (MTM28) measured a 67 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
July 2023	Hail	Hoyt	-	A trained spotter reported hail up to the size of quarters.
July 2023	Hail	Hoyt	-	The public reported hail up to the size of quarters.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Hoyt	-	The BLM Glendive Mesonet site (MTM28) measured a 58 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Hoyt	-	At the mesonet site 5 ESE Hoyt (MTM28), a wind gust of 60 mph was recorded at 2:30 PM MST.
September 2019	Flood	Hoyt	-	Dawson County Law Enforcement reported 2 inches of standing water on I-94, located 8 miles southwest of Glendive.
June 2016	Hail	Hoyt	-	Dawson County Emergency Manager reported baseball sized hail.
July 2016	Hail	Hoyt	-	Trained spotter reported quarter sized hail lasting for 15 minutes along with 35 mph winds.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Hoyt	-	Trained spotter reported open front-end pole barn blown apart, an older building moved off its foundation, and broken tree limbs up to 6 inches in diameter.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Hoyt	-	The Buffalo Rapids agrimet mesonet site reported 64 mph winds.
June 2014	Hail	Hoyt	-	Trained spotter reported quarter-sized hail.
July 2013	Hail	Hoyt	-	Trained spotter reported hail up to the size of golf balls.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Hoyt	-	Trained spotter estimated wind gusts up to 70 mph along with heavy rain and a small amount of pea-sized hail.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Hoyt	-	Trained spotter estimated wind gusts up to 60 mph with branches falling out of their trees.
July 2013	Hail	Hoyt	-	Trained spotter reported quarter-sized hail and heavy rain.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Hoyt	-	Trained spotter reported wind gusts up to 60 mph.
June 2012	Hail	Hoyt	-	A trained spotter reported quarter sized hail 9 miles north-northwest of Marsh in Dawson County.
March 2011	Flood	Hoyt	-	On March 14th, an ice jam on the Interstate 94 bridge near Glendive caused some low land flooding. On March 15th, West Glendive beginning a threat from the Yellowstone. On March 16th, equipment such as tractor and cars had to be moved to higher ground as the Interstate 94 bridge made the ice jamming problem much worse. On March 17th, water was flowing around an ice jam on the north side of Glendive resulting in flooding of lowland close to the river. On March 18th, Dawson County commissioners passed a resolution of emergency declaration due to the flooding.
March 2011	Flood	Hoyt	-	On March 16th, small creeks and streams that feed the Yellowstone River were swollen. On March 18th, an ice jam near the Dawson County line were causing minor flooding of low lying areas. On the afternoon of the 18th, the ice jam that was causing flooding in the Glendive area, moved out of the area. This ice jam flooding caused an estimated $400 thousand worth of damage to irrigation pumps at the Buffalo Rapids Irrigation pump house. The water level was the highest that the employees had seen since 1972.
March 2011	Flood	Hoyt	-	Small creeks, streams and the Yellowstone River are flooding surrounding fields and low lying areas.
May 2011	Flood	Hoyt	-	Many gravel roads became impassible due to the extremely wet conditions. On May 21st, the Barry Underpass had 4 to 5 feet of water in it.
May 2011	Flood	Hoyt	-	Runoff from recent heavy rain has brought flooding to several creeks and streams that feed the Yellowstone River.
May 2010	Hail	Hoyt	-	A law enforcement officer reported one inch hail.
August 2010	Hail	Hoyt	-	Also estimated 40 mph wind.
August 2009	Hail	Hoyt	-	Nickel size hail, heavy rain, no strong wind.
July 2007	Heavy Rain	Hoyt	-	Two and a quarter inches of rain was measured in 3 hours.
July 2007	Hail	Hoyt	-	no account filed
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Hoyt	-	no account filed
August 2005	Hail	Hoyt	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Hoyt	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dawson 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
Marsh	5.0 miles	9
Colgate	7.7 miles	7
Pleasant View	8.4 miles	7
Forest Park	13.1 miles	7
West Glendive	13.7 miles	8
Landtsheim (historical)	13.8 miles	7
Glendive	14.3 miles	8
Curry	16.4 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 772594. 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.