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Ismay, Montana

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Shirley-Ismay census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59336. It stands on Station Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ismay South quadrangle. 17 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,526 feet above sea level.

Ismay within Custer County

On record in Ismay

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Ismay fell from 19 to 17 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
201019
202017-2 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Ismay between 2008 and 2020, burning about 496 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

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
20 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use9.2 acresCuster CountyLONE - CUSTER
18 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use320 acresMiles City Field OfficeKEYSTONE
10 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use168 acresMiles City Field OfficePENNEL CREEK

Every fire recorded in Custer County

Storms near this place

21 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ismay in 21 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 17 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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 2025HailIsmay-Measured hail.
July 2025HailIsmay-Quarter size hail reported.
June 2015HailIsmay-A spotter reported golf ball size hail with windows knocked out of the house.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindIsmay-Winds were estimated at 60-70 mph accompanied by half inch hail. Large trees were missing limbs and leaves.
June 2010HailIsmay-Wind gusts of 60 mph were estimated 3 miles northeast of Ismay with 4 diameter tree branches down.
July 2004Flash FloodIsmay-Flash flooding occurred on several creeks and small drainages. No damage reported. Floodingoccurred from 720 pm to 830 pm.
July 2004HailIsmay-Quarter sized hail fell along with 70 mph winds.
May 1999HailIsmay-Nickel size hail was reported in Ismay.
June 2014HailIsmay-no account filed
June 2014HailIsmay-no account filed
June 2014HailIsmay-no account filed
June 2010Thunderstorm WindIsmay-no account filed
June 2007HailIsmay-no account filed
June 2006HailIsmay-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindIsmay-no account filed
May 2005HailIsmay-no account filed
July 2005HailIsmay-no account filed
June 2001HailIsmay-no account filed
June 2001HailIsmay-no account filed
June 2001HailIsmay-no account filed
July 2001HailIsmay-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Custer 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
Foundation (historical)18.6 miles8
Knowlton18.8 miles8
Mizpah30.5 miles8
Oneill (historical)30.6 miles8
Kimball (historical)33.5 miles8
Shirley42.2 miles8
Bonfield42.2 miles8
Kinsey46.0 miles9

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 IsmayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q958787The 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 794947. 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.