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Inverness, Montana

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Rudyard census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59530. The Survey maps it on the Inverness quadrangle. 77 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,297 feet above sea level.

Inverness within Hill County

Population over time

2 figures

Inverness grew from 55 to 77 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
201055
202077+22 (+40%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Inverness between 2017 and 2019, burning about 600 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
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
13 September 2019Naturalunder an acreLiberty Countynot named
26 August 2017Equipment and vehicle use600 acresNortheastern Land Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hill County

Storms near this place

38 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Inverness in 38 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 24 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2025Thunderstorm WindInverness-Montana mesonet station Inverness N peak gust.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindInverness-MT DOT weather station (Inverness US-2 MP 337.6) measured a 58 mph wind gust.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindInverness-Mesonet station GW4079 Inverness 10 SE.
September 2022Thunderstorm WindInverness-Mesonet station MTINV Inverness reported 68 knot wind gust.
July 2022HailInverness-Spotter also reported .56 inches of rain in 5 to 10 minutes.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindInverness-Gust measured at the DOT sensor near Inverness.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindInverness-MDT Inverness station measured a 54 kt (62 mph) thunderstorm wind gust.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindInverness-Mesonet station at 13 S Inverness measured a 50 kt (58 mph) thunderstorm wind gust.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindInverness-Mesonet station mtinv Inverness.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindInverness-A 70 mph wind gusts was recorded by the DOT sensor just east of Inverness.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindInverness-A Department of Transportation roadside station recorded a 50 knot wind gust.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindInverness-A 63 mph wind gust at the DOT sensor near Inverness.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindInverness-A 66 mph wind gust from the mesonet site north of Rudyard.
August 2013Heavy RainInverness-Heavy rain estimated at about 1.40 inches fell during the evening hours.
August 2013HailInverness-Hail measuring 1.00 inches (quarter sized) was reported 14 miles S of Inverness, MT.
June 2012HailInverness-Quarter size hail, measuring 1.00 inches, was reported 16 miles S of Inverness.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindInverness-A thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 70 mph at Inverness 2E (the Inverness DOT site).
July 2008Thunderstorm WindInverness-A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 70 mph at Inverness 16S.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindInverness-A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 60 mph at Inverness 5S.
June 2008HailInverness-A severe thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Inverness 7SSE.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindInverness-A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 60 mph at Inverness 16S.
June 2007Heavy RainInverness-A thunderstorm produced .40 inches of rain in 5 ,imutes.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindInverness-A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 60 mph at Inverness 15S.
July 2007HailInverness-A severe thunderstorm dropped .75 inch diameter hail in a 30 minute span at Inverness 20N.
July 2007HailInverness-A severe thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diamter hail at Inverness 3N.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindInverness-A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 70 mph at Inverness 3N.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindInverness-A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 64 mph at Inverness 1W.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindInverness-A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 70 mph at Inverness 15S.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindInverness-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindInverness-no account filed
July 2005HailInverness-no account filed
May 2003HailInverness-no account filed
May 2003HailInverness-no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindInverness-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindInverness-no account filed
June 1996HailInverness-no account filed
June 1996HailInverness-no account filed
June 1995HailInverness-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hill 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
Iverness0.3 miles7
Rudyard6.9 miles7
Hingham13.9 miles8
Brinkman (historical)18.5 miles6
Gildford20.4 miles8
Minneota (historical)22.7 miles7
Goldstone25.0 miles7
Gildford Colony27.0 miles8

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 InvernessAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q965666The 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 767927. 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.