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Intake, Montana

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Richey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59330. It stands on Linden Creek. The Survey maps it on the Intake quadrangle.

Intake within Dawson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 7 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

5 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Intake between 2016 and 2020, burning about 112 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
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
19 August 2017Equipment and vehicle use107 acresEastern Land OfficeSIXTEEN
26 June 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.3 acresDawson CountyDANCE - DAWSON
26 June 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresDawson CountyWAR - DAWSON
19 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDawson CountyDIVERSION - DAWSON
11 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresEastern Land OfficeNAGEL - MCCONE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dawson County

Storms near this place

16 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Intake in 16 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 flood. 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
July 1997Thunderstorm WindIntake$12,000no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindIntake$10,000no account filed
August 2008Thunderstorm WindIntake$1,000Large tree branches were snapped and blown across the yard. Lawn furniture was blown 30 feet.
July 2025FloodIntake-Dawson County Emergency Manager reported water flowing over Highway 16 due to heavy rain from thunderstorms.
June 2021HailIntake-Public measured ping pong ball size hail and reported via Facebook.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindIntake-Public reported many shingles torn off a roof and debris flying around. Wind speed is estimated.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindIntake-Public estimated 60 mph wind gusts with multiple tree limbs blown down.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindIntake-Public 4 NE Intake estimated 60 mph wind gusts.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindIntake-Public estimated wind gusts up to 60 mph and pea size hail.
August 2011HailIntake-Spotter reported mainly pea-sized hail stones with a few quarter-sized stones. Heavy rain also reported.
June 2009Heavy RainIntake-Spotter reported two inches of rainfall.
July 2009HailIntake-Wind gusts to 30 to 40 mph occurred in addition to the hail.
June 2009HailIntake-no account filed
May 2004HailIntake-no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindIntake-no account filed
June 1996HailIntake-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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Lufboro (historical)3.4 miles7
Stipek9.4 miles7
Curry15.1 miles8
Glendive16.5 miles8
Red Top17.4 miles7
West Glendive17.5 miles8
Allard17.8 miles7
Forest Park18.1 miles7

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.

Wikidata item Q122589358The 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 772708. 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.