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.
Population over time
2 figuresInverness 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 55 | |
| 2020 | 77 | +22 (+40%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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.
- 1919 USGS Alma quadrangle1:125000
- 1954 USGS Shelby quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Shelby quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Inverness quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Chester quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 2017Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Liberty County | not named |
| 26 August 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 600 acres | Northeastern Land Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
38 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inverness | - | Montana mesonet station Inverness N peak gust. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inverness | - | MT DOT weather station (Inverness US-2 MP 337.6) measured a 58 mph wind gust. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inverness | - | Mesonet station GW4079 Inverness 10 SE. |
| September 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inverness | - | Mesonet station MTINV Inverness reported 68 knot wind gust. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Inverness | - | Spotter also reported .56 inches of rain in 5 to 10 minutes. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inverness | - | Gust measured at the DOT sensor near Inverness. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inverness | - | MDT Inverness station measured a 54 kt (62 mph) thunderstorm wind gust. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inverness | - | Mesonet station at 13 S Inverness measured a 50 kt (58 mph) thunderstorm wind gust. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inverness | - | Mesonet station mtinv Inverness. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inverness | - | A 70 mph wind gusts was recorded by the DOT sensor just east of Inverness. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inverness | - | A Department of Transportation roadside station recorded a 50 knot wind gust. |
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inverness | - | A 63 mph wind gust at the DOT sensor near Inverness. |
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inverness | - | A 66 mph wind gust from the mesonet site north of Rudyard. |
| August 2013 | Heavy Rain | Inverness | - | Heavy rain estimated at about 1.40 inches fell during the evening hours. |
| August 2013 | Hail | Inverness | - | Hail measuring 1.00 inches (quarter sized) was reported 14 miles S of Inverness, MT. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Inverness | - | Quarter size hail, measuring 1.00 inches, was reported 16 miles S of Inverness. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inverness | - | A thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 70 mph at Inverness 2E (the Inverness DOT site). |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inverness | - | A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 70 mph at Inverness 16S. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inverness | - | A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 60 mph at Inverness 5S. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Inverness | - | A severe thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Inverness 7SSE. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inverness | - | A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 60 mph at Inverness 16S. |
| June 2007 | Heavy Rain | Inverness | - | A thunderstorm produced .40 inches of rain in 5 ,imutes. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inverness | - | A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 60 mph at Inverness 15S. |
| July 2007 | Hail | Inverness | - | A severe thunderstorm dropped .75 inch diameter hail in a 30 minute span at Inverness 20N. |
| July 2007 | Hail | Inverness | - | A severe thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diamter hail at Inverness 3N. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inverness | - | A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 70 mph at Inverness 3N. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inverness | - | A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 64 mph at Inverness 1W. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inverness | - | A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 70 mph at Inverness 15S. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inverness | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inverness | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Inverness | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Inverness | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Inverness | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inverness | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inverness | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Inverness | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Inverness | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Inverness | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iverness | 0.3 miles | 7 | |
| Rudyard | 6.9 miles | 7 | |
| Hingham | 13.9 miles | 8 | |
| Brinkman (historical) | 18.5 miles | 6 | |
| Gildford | 20.4 miles | 8 | |
| Minneota (historical) | 22.7 miles | 7 | |
| Goldstone | 25.0 miles | 7 | |
| Gildford Colony | 27.0 miles | 8 |
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 Inverness | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q965666 | 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 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.




